Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. She seems to joy at the back-bringing safety!
  2. Of this, too, if I nought persuade, all’s one! Why?
  3. What is to be will come. And soon thou, present,
  4. True prophet all too much wilt pitying style me.
CHOROS.
  1. Thuestes’ feast, indeed, on flesh of children,
  2. I went with, and I shuddered. Fear too holds me
  3. Listing what’s true as life, nowise out-imaged.
KASSANDRA.
  1. I say, thou Agamemnon’s fate shalt look on.