Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

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