Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. But dream-appearing mournful fantasies —
  2. There they stand, bringing grace that’s vain.
  3. For vain ’t is, when brave things one seems to view;
  4. The fantasy has floated off, hands through;
  5. Gone, that appearance, — nowise left to creep, —
  6. On wings, the servants in the paths of sleep!
  7. Woes, then, in household and on hearth, are such
  8. As these—and woes surpassing these by much.
  9. But not these only: everywhere —
  10. For those who from the land
  11. Of Hellas issued in a band,
  12. Sorrow, the heart must bear,
  13. Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there.
  14. Many a circumstance, at least,
  15. Touches the very breast.
  16. For those
  17. Whom any sent away, — he knows:
  18. And in the live man’s stead,
  19. Armour and ashes reach
  20. The house of each.