Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Standers-apart, not lovers, wouldst thou style them:
  2. And so, of captives and of conquerors, partwise
  3. The voices are to hear, of fortune diverse.
  4. For those, indeed, upon the bodies prostrate
  5. Of husbands, brothers, children upon parents
  6. — The old men, from a throat that ’s free no longer,
  7. Shriekingly wail the death-doom of their dearest:
  8. While these — the after-battle hungry labour,