Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Halloo, halloo, ah, evils!
  2. Again, straightforward foresight’s fearful labour
  3. Whirls me, distracting with prelusive last-lays!
  4. Behold ye those there, in the household seated, —
  5. Young ones, — of dreams approaching to the figures?
  6. Children, as if they died by their beloveds —
  7. Hands they have filled with flesh, the meal domestic —
  8. Entrails and vitals both, most piteous burthen,
  9. Plain they are holding! — which their father tasted!
  10. For this, I say, plans punishment a certain
  11. Lion ignoble, on the bed that wallows,
  12. House-guard (ah, me!) to the returning master
  13. — Mine, since to bear the slavish yoke behoves me!
  14. The ship’s commander, Ilion’s desolator,
  15. Knows not what things the tongue of the lewd she-dog
  16. Speaking, outspreading, shiny-souled, in fashion
  17. Of Até hid, will reach to, by ill fortune!
  18. Such things she dares — the female, the male’s slayer!
  19. She is . . . how calling her the hateful bite-beast
  20. May I hit the mark? Some amphisbaina, — Skulla