Agamemnon
Aeschylus
Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.
- Since thrice-six has it thrown to me, this signal.
- Well, may it hap that, as he comes, the loved hand
- O’ the household’s lord I may sustain with this hand!
- As for the rest, I’m mute: on tongue a big ox
- Has trodden. Yet this House, if voice it take should,
- Most plain would speak. So, willing I myself speak
- To those who know: to who know not — I’m blankness.
- The tenth year this, since Priamos’ great match,