Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. The sacrificer of his daughter — strange! —
  2. He dared become, to expedite
  3. Woman-avenging warfare, — anchors weighed
  4. 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 —
  5. Kid-like, above the altar, swathed in pall,
  6. Take her — lift high, and have no fear at all,
  7. Head-downward, and the fair mouth’s guard
  8. And frontage hold, — press hard
  9. From utterance a curse against the House
  1. By dint of bit-violence bridling speech.
  2. And as to ground her saffron-vest she shed,
  3. She smote the sacrificers all and each
  4. With arrow sweet and piteous,
  5. From the eye only sped, —
  6. Significant of will to use a word,
  7. Just as in pictures: since, full many a time,