Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Thou liest where webs of the spider o’ersweep thee
  2. In impious death, life breathing away.
  3. O me — me!
  4. This couch, not free.
  5. By a slavish death subdued thou art,
  6. From the hand, by the two-edged dart.
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Thou boastest this deed to be mine:
  2. But leave off styling me
  3. The Agamemnonian wife!
  4. For, showing himself in sign
  5. Of the spouse of the corpse thou dost see,
  6. Did the ancient bitter avenging-ghost
  7. Of Atreus, savage host,
  8. Pay the man here as price —
  9. A full-grown for the young one’s sacrifice.
CHOROS.
  1. That no cause, indeed, of this killing art thou,
  2. Who shall be witness-bearer?
  3. How shall he bear it — how?
  4. But the sire’s avenging-ghost might be in the deed a sharer.
  5. He is forced on and on