Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Devouring a hare-creature, great with young,
  2. Baulked of more racings they, as she from whom they sprung!
  3. Ah, Linos, say — ah, Linos, song of wail!
  4. But may the good prevail!
  1. The prudent army-prophet seeing two
  2. The Atreidai, two their tempers, knew
  3. Those feasting on the hare
  4. The armament-conductors were;
  5. And thus he spoke, explaining signs in view.
  6. In time, this outset takes the town of Priamos:
  7. But all before its towers, — the people’s wealth that was,
  8. Of flocks and herds, — as sure, shall booty-sharing thence
  9. Drain to the dregs away, by battle violence.
  10. Only, have care lest grudge of any god disturb
  11. With cloud the unsullied shine of that great force, the curb
  12. Of Troia, struck with damp
  13. Beforehand in the camp!
  14. For envyingly is
  15. The virgin Artemis
  16. Toward — her father’s flying hounds — this House —