Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. In her sire’s guest-hall, by the well-heaped board
  2. Had she made music, — lovingly with chime
  3. Of her chaste voice, that unpolluted thing,
  4. Honoured the third libation, — paian that should bring
  5. Good fortune to the sire she loved so well.
  1. What followed — those things I nor saw nor tell.
  2. But Kalchas’ arts, — whate’er they indicate, —
  3. Miss of fulfilment never: it is fate.
  4. True, justice makes, in sufferers, a desire
  5. To know the future woe preponderate.
  6. But — hear before is need?
  7. To that, farewell and welcome! ’t is the same, indeed,
  8. As grief beforehand: clearly, part for part,
  9. Conformably to Kalchas’ art,
  10. Shall come the event.
  11. But be they as they may, things subsequent, —
  12. What is to do, prosperity betide
  13. E’en as we wish it! — we, the next allied,
  14. Sole guarding barrier of the Apian land.
CHOROS.
  1. I am come, reverencing power in thee,