Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. — Even in these adornments, laughed by friends at,
  2. As good as foes, i’ the balance weighed: and vainly —
  3. For, called crazed stroller, — as I had been gipsy,
  4. Beggar, unhappy, starved to death, — I bore it.
  5. And now the Prophet — prophet me undoing,
  6. Has led away to these so deadly fortunes!
  7. Instead of my sire’s altar, waits the hack-block
  8. She struck with first warm bloody sacrificing!