Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Not — whosoever was the great of yore,
  2. Bursting to bloom with bravery all round —
  3. Is in our mouths: he was, but is no more.
  4. And who it was that after came to be,
  5. Met the thrice-throwing wrestler, — he
  6. Is also gone to ground.
  7. But Zeus — if any, heart and soul, that name —
  8. Shouting the triumph-praise — proclaim,
  9. Complete in judgment shall that man be found.
  1. Zeus, who leads onward mortals to be wise,
  2. Appoints that suffering masterfully teach.
  3. In sleep, before the heart of each,
  4. A woe-remembering travail sheds in dew
  5. Discretion, — ay, and melts the unwilling too
  6. By what, perchance, may be a graciousness
  7. Of gods, enforced no less, —
  8. As they, commanders of the crew,
  9. Assume the awful seat.
  1. And then the old leader of the Achaian fleet,
  2. Disparaging no seer —