Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  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!