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 so much and no more prosperity
  2. Than of his envy passes unespied.
  3. Neither a city-sacker would I be,
  4. 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