Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Kid-like, above the altar, swathed in pall,
  2. Take her — lift high, and have no fear at all,
  3. Head-downward, and the fair mouth’s guard
  4. And frontage hold, — press hard
  5. 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,
  8. In her sire’s guest-hall, by the well-heaped board
  9. Had she made music, — lovingly with chime
  10. Of her chaste voice, that unpolluted thing,
  11. Honoured the third libation, — paian that should bring