Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. The kicking down o’ the feast — that so might perish
  2. The race of Pleisthenes entire: and thence is
  3. That it is given thee to see this man prostrate.
  4. And I was rightly of this slaughter stitch-man:
  5. Since me, — being third from ten, — with my poor father
  6. He drives out — being then a babe in swathe-bands:
  7. But, grown up, back again has justice brought me:
  8. And of this man I got hold — being without-doors —