Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Upon us in quickness —
  2. Neither much sickness
  3. Neither bed-keeping —
  4. And bear unended sleeping,
  5. Now that subdued
  6. Is our keeper, the kindest of mood!
  7. Having borne, for a woman’s sake, much strife —
  8. By a woman he withered from life!