Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  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,
  9. To make his funeral moan:
  10. And for the soul of him, in place
  11. Of his mighty deeds, a graceless grace
  12. To wickedly institute? By whom
  13. Shall the tale of praise o’er the tomb
  14. At the god-like man be sent —
  15. From the truth of his mind as he toils intent?
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. It belongs not to thee to declare