Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Much having been before to purpose spoken,
  2. The opposite to say I shall not shamed be:
  3. For how should one, to enemies, — in semblance,
  4. Friends, — enmity proposing, — sorrow’s net-frame
  5. Enclose, a height superior to outleaping?
  6. To me, indeed, this struggle of old — not mindless
  7. Of an old victory — came: with time, I grant you!
  8. I stand where I have struck, things once accomplished: