Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Him, by life’s strain and stress
  2. Back-again-beaten from success,
  3. They strike blind: and among the out-of-sight
  4. For who has got to be, avails no might.
  5. The being praised outrageously
  6. Is grave, for at the eyes of such an one
  7. Is launched, from Zeus, the thunder-stone.
  8. Therefore do I decide
  9. For so much and no more prosperity
  10. Than of his envy passes unespied.
  11. Neither a city-sacker would I be,
  12. Nor life, myself by others captive, see.
  1. A swift report has gone our city through,
  2. From fire, the good-news messenger: if true,
  3. Who knows? Or is it not a god-sent lie?
  4. Who is so childish and deprived of sense