Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. For we waste time; while they, — this waiting’s glory
  2. Treading to ground, — allow the hand no slumber.
CHOROS 6.
  1. I know not — chancing on some plan — to tell it:
  2. ’T is for the doer to plan of the deed also.
CHOROS 7.
  1. And I am such another: since I’m schemeless
  2. How to raise up again by words — a dead man!
CHOROS 8.
  1. What, and, protracting life, shall we give way thus
  2. To the disgracers of our home, these rulers?