Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. I may say truly, now, that men’s avengers,
  2. The gods from high, of earth behold the sorrows —
  3. Seeing, as I have, i’ the spun robes of the Erinues,
  4. This man here lying, — sight to me how pleasant! —
  5. His father’s hands’ contrivances repaying.
  6. For Atreus, this land’s lord, of this man father,
  7. Thuestes, my own father — to speak clearly —
  8. His brother too, — being i’ the rule contested, —