Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. But when he underwent necessity’s
  2. Yoke-trace, — from soul blowing unhallowed change
  3. Unclean, abominable, — thence—another man —
  4. The audacious mind of him began
  5. Its wildest range.
  6. For this it is gives mortals hardihood —
  7. Some vice-devising miserable mood
  8. Of madness, and first woe of all the brood.
  9. The sacrificer of his daughter — strange! —
  10. He dared become, to expedite
  11. Woman-avenging warfare, — anchors weighed
  12. With such prelusive rite!
  1. Prayings and callings Father — naught they made
  2. Of these, and of the virgin-age, —
  3. Captains heart-set on war to wage!
  4. His ministrants, vows done, the father bade —