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
  11. Adducing Artemis,
  12. So that the Atreidai striking staves on earth
  13. Could not withhold the tear) —
  1. Then did the king, the elder, speak this clear.