Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. And pays a debt by public curse incurred.
  2. And ever with me— as about to hear
  3. A something night-involved — remains my fear:
  4. Since of the many-slayers — not
  5. Unwatching are the gods.
  6. The black Erinues, at due periods —
  7. Whoever gains the lot
  8. Of fortune with no right —
  9. Him, by life’s strain and stress
  10. Back-again-beaten from success,
  11. They strike blind: and among the out-of-sight
  12. For who has got to be, avails no might.
  13. The being praised outrageously
  14. Is grave, for at the eyes of such an one
  15. Is launched, from Zeus, the thunder-stone.
  16. Therefore do I decide
  17. For so much and no more prosperity
  18. Than of his envy passes unespied.
  19. Neither a city-sacker would I be,
  20. Nor life, myself by others captive, see.