Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Close neighbours on his garb, thus testify me
  2. That neither voiceless, nor yet kindling for thee
  3. Mountain-wood-flame, shall he explain by fire-smoke:
  4. But either tell out more the joyance, speaking ..
  5. Word contrary to which, I aught but love it!
  6. For may good be — to good that’s known — appendage!
CHOROS.
  1. Whoever prays for aught else to this city
  2. — May he himself reap fruit of his mind’s error!
HERALD.
  1. Ha, my forefathers’ soil of earth Argeian!
  2. Thee, in this year’s tenth light, am I returned to —
  3. Of many broken hopes, on one hope chancing;
  4. For never prayed I, in this earth Argeian
  5. Dying, to share my part in tomb the dearest.
  6. Now, hail thou earth, and hail thou also, sunlight,
  7. And Zeus, the country’s lord, and king the Puthian
  8. From bow no longer urging at us arrows!
  9. Enough, beside Skamandros, cam’st thou adverse:
  10. Now, contrary, be saviour thou and healer,
  11. O king Apollon! And gods conquest-granting,
  12. All — I invoke too, and my tutelary