Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. More than is best for man. Be man’s what must
  2. Keep harm off, so that in himself he find
  3. Sufficiency — the well-endowed of mind!
  4. For there’s no bulwark in man’s wealth to him
  5. Who, through a surfeit, kicks — into the dim
  6. And disappearing — Right’s great altar.
  1. Yes —
  2. It urges him, the sad persuasiveness,
  3. Até’s insufferable child that schemes
  4. Treason beforehand: and all cure is vain.
  5. It is not hidden: out it glares again,
  6. A light dread-lamping-mischief, just as gleams
  7. The badness of the bronze;
  8. Through rubbing, puttings to the touch,
  9. Black-clotted is he, judged at once.
  10. He seeks — the boy — a flying bird to clutch,
  11. The insufferable brand
  12. Setting upon the city of his land
  13. Whereof not any god hears prayer;
  14. While him who brought about such evils there,