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,
  2. Some of them, one might say, had luck in falling,
  3. While some were faulty: since who, gods excepted,
  4. Goes, through the whole time of his life, ungrieving?
  5. For labours should I tell of, and bad lodgments,
  6. Narrow deckways ill-strewn, too, — what the day’s woe
  7. We did not groan at getting for our portion?
  8. As for land-things, again, on went more hatred!
  9. Since beds were ours hard by the foemen’s ramparts,