Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. With bated breath to suit misfortune’s inrush here
  2. — (What time it laboured, that Achaian host,
  3. By stay from sailing, — every pulse at length
  4. Emptied of vital strength, —
  5. Hard over Kalchis shore-bound, current-crost
  6. In Aulis station, — while the winds which post
  1. From Strumon, ill-delayers, famine-fraught,
  2. Tempters of man to sail where harbourage is naught,
  3. Spendthrifts of ships and cables, turning time
  4. To twice the length, — these carded, by delay,
  5. To less and less away
  6. The Argeians’ flowery prime:
  7. And when a remedy more grave and grand
  8. Than aught before, — yea, for the storm and dearth, —
  9. The prophet to the foremost in command
  10. Shrieked forth, as cause of this