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 those who loved you back, with longing stricken.
HERALD.
  1. This land yearned for the yearning army, say’st thou?
CHOROS.
  1. So as to set me oft, from dark mind, groaning.
HERALD.
  1. Whence came this ill mind — hatred to the army?
CHOROS.
  1. Of old, I use, for mischiefs physic, silence.
HERALD.
  1. And how, the chiefs away, did you fear any?
CHOROS.
  1. So that now, — late thy word, — much joy were — dying!
HERALD.
  1. For well have things been worked out: these, — in much time,