Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. For Ares, gold-exchanger for the dead,
  2. And balance-holder in the fight o’ the spear,
  3. Due-weight from Ilion sends —
  4. What moves the tear on tear —
  5. A charred scrap to the friends:
  6. Filling with well-packed ashes every urn,
  7. For man — that was — the sole return.
  8. And they groan — praising much, the while,
  9. Now this man as experienced in the strife,
  10. Now that, fallen nobly on a slaughtered pile,
  11. Because of — not his own — another’s wife.
  12. But things there be, one barks,
  13. When no man harks:
  14. A surreptitious grief that’s grudge
  15. Against the Atreidai who first sought the judge.
  16. But some there, round the rampart, have
  17. In Ilian earth, each one his grave:
  18. All fair-formed as at birth,
  19. It hid them — what they have and hold — the hostile earth.
  1. And big with anger goes the city’s word,