Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Bear himself proudly!
  2. Being by sword-destroying death amerced
  3. For that sword’s punishment himself inflicted first.
CHOROS.
  1. I at a loss am left —
  2. Of a feasible scheme of mind bereft —
  3. Where I may turn: for the house is falling:
  4. I fear the bloody crash of the rain
  5. That ruins the roof as it bursts amain:
  6. The warning-drop
  7. Has come to a stop.
  8. Destiny doth Justice whet
  9. For other deed of hurt, on other whetstones yet.
  1. Woe, earth, earth — would thou hadst taken me
  2. Ere I saw the man I see,
  3. On the pallet-bed
  4. Of the silver-sided bath-vase, dead!
  5. Who is it shall bury him, who
  6. Sing his dirge? Can it be true
  7. That thou wilt dare this same to do —
  8. Having slain thy husband, thine own,