Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. When no man harks:
  2. A surreptitious grief that’s grudge
  3. Against the Atreidai who first sought the judge.
  4. But some there, round the rampart, have
  5. In Ilian earth, each one his grave:
  6. All fair-formed as at birth,
  7. It hid them — what they have and hold — the hostile earth.
  1. And big with anger goes the city’s word,
  2. And pays a debt by public curse incurred.
  3. And ever with me— as about to hear
  4. A something night-involved — remains my fear:
  5. Since of the many-slayers — not
  6. Unwatching are the gods.
  7. The black Erinues, at due periods —
  8. Whoever gains the lot
  9. Of fortune with no right —