Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Now, lucky be deliverance from these labours,
  2. At good news — the appearing dusky fire!
  3. O hail, thou lamp of night, a day-long lightness
  4. Revealing, and of dances the ordainment!
  5. Halloo, halloo!
  6. To Agamemnon’s wife I show, by shouting,
  7. That, from bed starting up at once, i’ the household
  8. Joyous acclaim, good-omened to this torch-blaze,
  9. She send aloft, if haply Ilion’s city
  10. Be taken, as the beacon boasts announcing.
  11. Ay, and, for me, myself will dance a prelude,
  12. For, that my masters’ dice drop right, I’ll reckon:
  13. Since thrice-six has it thrown to me, this signal.
  14. Well, may it hap that, as he comes, the loved hand
  15. O’ the household’s lord I may sustain with this hand!
  16. As for the rest, I’m mute: on tongue a big ox
  17. Has trodden. Yet this House, if voice it take should,
  18. Most plain would speak. So, willing I myself speak
  19. To those who know: to who know not — I’m blankness.
CHOROS.
  1. The tenth year this, since Priamos’ great match,