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 wash against the rays a woe much greater
  2. Than this. I will no longer teach by riddles.
  3. And witness, running with me, that of evils
  4. Done long ago, I nosing track the footstep!
  5. For, this same roof here — never quits a Choros
  6. One-voiced, not well-tuned since no well it utters:
  7. And truly having drunk, to get more courage,
  8. Man’s blood — the Komos keeps within the household
  9. — Hard to be sent outside — of sister Furies:
  10. They hymn their hymn — within the house close sitting —
  11. The first beginning curse: in turn spit forth at
  12. The Brother’s bed, to him who spurned it hostile.
  13. Have I missed aught, or hit I like a bowman?
  14. False prophet am I, — knock at doors, a babbler?
  15. Henceforward witness, swearing now, I know not
  16. By other’s word the old sins of this household!