Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Enough, beside Skamandros, cam’st thou adverse:
  2. Now, contrary, be saviour thou and healer,
  3. O king Apollon! And gods conquest-granting,
  4. All — I invoke too, and my tutelary
  5. Hermes, dear herald, heralds’ veneration, —
  6. And Heroes our forthsenders, — friendly, once more
  7. The army to receive, the war-spear’s leavings!
  8. Ha, mansions of my monarchs, roofs beloved,
  9. And awful seats, and deities sun-fronting —
  10. Receive with pomp your monarch, long time absent!
  11. For he comes bringing light in night-time to you,
  12. In common with all these — king Agamemnon.
  13. But kindly greet him — for clear shows your duty —
  14. Who has dug under Troia with the mattock
  15. Of Zeus the Avenger, whereby plains are out-ploughed,
  16. Altars unrecognizable, and gods’ shrines,