Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Ah, strangers!
  2. I cry not ah — as bird at bush — through terror
  3. Idly! to me, the dead this much bear witness:
  4. When, for me — woman, there shall die a woman,
  5. And, for a man ill-wived, a man shall perish!
  6. This hospitality I ask as dying.
CHOROS.
  1. O sufferer, thee — thy foretold fate I pity.
KASSANDRA.
  1. Yet once for all, to speak a speech, I fain am:
  2. No dirge, mine for myself! The sun I pray to,
  3. Fronting his last light! — to my own avengers —
  4. That from my hateful slayers they exact too
  5. Pay for the dead slave — easy-managed hand’s work!
CHOROS.
  1. Alas for mortal matters! Happy-fortuned, —
  2. Why, any shade would turn them: if unhappy,
  3. By throws the wetting sponge has spoiled the picture!
  4. And more by much in mortals this I pity.
  5. The being well-to-do —
  6. Insatiate a desire of this
  7. Born with all mortals is,
  8. Nor any is there who