Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. That unjust man, the god in grapple throws.
  2. Such an one, Paris goes
  3. Within the Atreidai’s house —
  4. Shamed the guest’s board by robbery of the spouse.
  1. And, leaving to her townsmen throngs a-spread
  2. With shields, and spear-thrusts of sea-armament,
  3. And bringing Ilion, in a dowry’s stead,
  4. Destruction — swiftly through the gates she went,
  5. Daring the undareable. But many a groan outbroke
  6. From prophets of the House as thus they spoke.
  7. Woe, woe the House, the House and Rulers, — woe
  8. The marriage-bed and dints
  9. A husband’s love imprints!
  10. There she stands silent! meets no honour — no
  11. Shame — sweetest still to see of things gone long ago!
  12. And, through desire of one across the main,
  13. A ghost will seem within the house to reign.
  14. And hateful to the husband is the grace
  15. Of well-shaped statues: from — in place of eyes
  16. Those blanks — all Aphrodite dies.