Agamemnon
Aeschylus
Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.
- Much having been before to purpose spoken,
- The opposite to say I shall not shamed be:
- For how should one, to enemies, — in semblance,
- Friends, — enmity proposing, — sorrow’s net-frame
- Enclose, a height superior to outleaping?
- To me, indeed, this struggle of old — not mindless
- Of an old victory — came: with time, I grant you!
- I stand where I have struck, things once accomplished: