Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. And, out of heaven and from the earth, the meadow
  2. Dews kept a-sprinkle, an abiding damage
  3. Of vestures, making hair a wild-beast matting.
  4. Winter, too, if one told of it — bird-slaying —
  5. Such as, unbearable, Idaian snow brought —
  6. Or heat, when waveless, on its noontide couches
  7. Without a wind, the sea would slumber falling
  8. — Why must one mourn these? O’er and gone is labour: