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,
  9. Lofty above their brood-nests wheel in ring,
  10. Row round and round with oar of either wing,
  11. Lament the bedded chicks, lost labour that was love:
  12. Which hearing, one above
  13. — Whether Apollon, Pan or Zeus — that wail,
  14. Sharp-piercing bird-shriek of the guests who fare
  15. Housemates with gods in air —
  16. Suchanone sends, against who these assail,
  17. What, late-sent, shall not fail
  18. Of punishing — Erinus. Here as there,
  19. The Guardian of the Guest, Zeus, the excelling one,
  20. Sends against Alexandros either son