Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. A charred scrap to the friends:
  2. Filling with well-packed ashes every urn,
  3. For man — that was — the sole return.
  4. And they groan — praising much, the while,
  5. Now this man as experienced in the strife,
  6. Now that, fallen nobly on a slaughtered pile,
  7. Because of — not his own — another’s wife.
  8. But things there be, one barks,