Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. O’er and gone is it, even to those dead ones,
  2. So that no more again they mind uprising.
  3. Why must we tell in numbers those deprived ones,
  4. And the live man be vexed with fate’s fresh outbreak?
  5. Rather, I bid full farewell to misfortunes!
  6. For us, the left from out the Argeian army,
  7. The gain beats, nor does sorrow counterbalance.
  8. So that ’t is fitly boasted of, this sunlight,