Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. With arrow sweet and piteous,
  2. From the eye only sped, —
  3. Significant of will to use a word,
  4. Just as in pictures: since, full many a time,
  5. In her sire’s guest-hall, by the well-heaped board
  6. Had she made music, — lovingly with chime
  7. Of her chaste voice, that unpolluted thing,
  8. Honoured the third libation, — paian that should bring