Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Beforehand in the camp!
  2. For envyingly is
  3. The virgin Artemis
  4. Toward — her father’s flying hounds — this House —
  5. The sacrificers of the piteous
  6. And cowering beast,
  7. Brood and all, ere the birth: she hates the eagles’ feast.
  8. Ah, Linos, say — ah, Linos, song of wail!
  9. But may the good prevail!
  1. Thus ready is the beauteous one with help
  2. To those small dewdrop-things fierce lions whelp,
  3. And udder-loving litter of each brute
  4. That roams the mead; and therefore makes she suit,
  5. The fair one, for fulfilment to the end
  6. Of things these signs portend —
  7. Which partly smile, indeed, but partly scowl —