Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Nowise for mortals, such
  2. As those by whom the good and fair
  3. Of things denied their touch
  4. Is trampled! but he was profane.
  5. That they do care, has been made plain
  6. To offspring of the over-bold,
  7. Outbreathing Ares greater than is just —
  8. Houses that spill with more than they can hold,
  9. More than is best for man. Be man’s what must
  10. Keep harm off, so that in himself he find
  11. Sufficiency — the well-endowed of mind!
  12. For there’s no bulwark in man’s wealth to him
  13. Who, through a surfeit, kicks — into the dim
  14. And disappearing — Right’s great altar.
  1. Yes —
  2. It urges him, the sad persuasiveness,