Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. King Menelaos, Agamemnon King,
  2. — The strenuous yoke-pair of the Atreidai’s honour
  3. Two-throned, two-sceptred, whereof Zeus was donor —
  4. Did from this land the aid, the armament despatch,
  5. The thousand-sailored force of Argives clamouring
  6. Aresfrom out the indignant breast, as fling
  7. Passion forth vultures which, because of grief
  8. Away, — as are their young ones, — with the thief,