Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Thus in the mind of him he rages, falling,
  2. And blowing forth a brisk blood-spatter, strikes me
  3. With the dark drop of slaughterous dew — rejoicing
  4. No less than, at the god-given dewy-comfort,
  5. The sown-stuff in its birth-throes from the calyx.
  6. Since so these things are, — Argives, my revered here, —
  7. Ye may rejoice — if ye rejoice: but I — boast!
  8. If it were fit on corpse to pour libation,