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-memorable curse
  2. Hast thou made flower-forth, red
  3. With the blood no rains disperse,
  4. That which was then in the House —
  5. Strife all-subduing, the woe of a spouse.
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Nowise, of death the fate —
  2. Burdened by these things — supplicate!
  3. Nor on Helena turn thy wrath
  4. As the man-destroyer, as she who hath,
  5. Being but one,
  6. Many and many a soul undone
  7. Of the men, the Danaoi —
  8. And wrought immense annoy!
CHOROS.
  1. Daimon, who fallest
  2. Upon this household and the double-raced
  3. Tantalidai, a rule, minded like theirs displaced,
  4. Thou rulest me with, now,
  5. Whose heart thou gallest!
  6. And on the body, like a hateful crow,
  7. Stationed, all out of tune, his chant to chant