Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Roused a new rendering-up of fire the escort —
  2. And light, far escort, lacked no recognition
  3. O’ the guard — as burning more than burnings told you.
  4. And over Lake Gorgopis light went leaping,
  5. And, at Mount Aigiplanktos safe arriving,
  6. Enforced the law — to never stint the fire-stuff.
  7. And they send, lighting up with ungrudged vigour,
  8. Of flame a huge beard, ay, the very foreland