Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Spendthrifts of ships and cables, turning time
  2. To twice the length, — these carded, by delay,
  3. To less and less away
  4. The Argeians’ flowery prime:
  5. And when a remedy more grave and grand
  6. Than aught before, — yea, for the storm and dearth, —
  7. The prophet to the foremost in command
  8. Shrieked forth, as cause of this