Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Faithful bed-fellow, — ay, the sailors’ benches
  2. They wore in common, nor unpunished did so,
  3. Since he is — thus! While, as for her, — swan-fashion,
  4. Her latest having chanted, — dying wailing
  5. She lies, — to him, a sweetheart: me she brought to —
  6. My bed’s by-nicety — the whet of dalliance.
CHOROS.
  1. Alas, that some
  2. Fate would come
  3. Upon us in quickness —
  4. Neither much sickness
  5. Neither bed-keeping —
  6. And bear unended sleeping,
  7. Now that subdued
  8. Is our keeper, the kindest of mood!
  9. Having borne, for a woman’s sake, much strife —
  10. By a woman he withered from life!
  1. Ah me!
  2. Law-breaking Helena who, one,
  3. Hast many, so many souls undone
  4. ’Neath Troia! and now the consummated