Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Plain they are holding! — which their father tasted!
  2. For this, I say, plans punishment a certain
  3. Lion ignoble, on the bed that wallows,
  4. House-guard (ah, me!) to the returning master
  5. — Mine, since to bear the slavish yoke behoves me!
  6. The ship’s commander, Ilion’s desolator,
  7. Knows not what things the tongue of the lewd she-dog
  8. Speaking, outspreading, shiny-souled, in fashion