Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Halloo, halloo!
  2. To Agamemnon’s wife I show, by shouting,
  3. That, from bed starting up at once, i’ the household
  4. Joyous acclaim, good-omened to this torch-blaze,
  5. She send aloft, if haply Ilion’s city
  6. Be taken, as the beacon boasts announcing.
  7. Ay, and, for me, myself will dance a prelude,
  8. For, that my masters’ dice drop right, I’ll reckon: