Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. The sacrificers of the piteous
  2. And cowering beast,
  3. Brood and all, ere the birth: she hates the eagles’ feast.
  4. Ah, Linos, say — ah, Linos, song of wail!
  5. 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 —
  8. The phantasms of the fowl.
  9. I call Ieïos Paian to avert
  10. She work the Danaoi hurt
  11. By any thwarting waftures, long and fast
  12. Holdings from sail of ships:
  13. And sacrifice, another than the last,
  14. She for herself precipitate —
  15. Something unlawful, feast for no man’s lips,