Agamemnon

Aeschylus

Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.

  1. To melodize thy sorrows — else, in singing,
  2. Calamitous, death-bringing!
  3. And of all this the end
  4. I am without resource to apprehend
KASSANDRA.
  1. Well then, the oracle from veils no longer
  2. Shall be outlooking, like a bride new-married:
  3. But bright it seems, against the sun’s uprisings
  4. Breathing, to penetrate thee: so as, wave-like,
  5. To wash against the rays a woe much greater
  6. Than this. I will no longer teach by riddles.
  7. And witness, running with me, that of evils
  8. Done long ago, I nosing track the footstep!
  9. For, this same roof here — never quits a Choros
  10. One-voiced, not well-tuned since no well it utters:
  11. And truly having drunk, to get more courage,
  12. Man’s blood — the Komos keeps within the household
  13. — Hard to be sent outside — of sister Furies:
  14. They hymn their hymn — within the house close sitting —
  15. The first beginning curse: in turn spit forth at
  16. The Brother’s bed, to him who spurned it hostile.