Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. What, late-sent, shall not fail
  2. Of punishing — Erinus. Here as there,
  3. The Guardian of the Guest, Zeus, the excelling one,
  4. Sends against Alexandros either son
  5. Of Atreus: for that wife, the many-husbanded,
  6. Appointing many a tug that tries the limb,
  7. While the knee plays the prop in dust, while, shred
  8. To morsels, lies the spear-shaft; in those grim
  9. Marriage-prolusions when their Fury wed
  10. Danaoi and Troes, both alike. All’s said:
  11. Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed,
  12. So shall they be fulfilled.
  13. Not gently-grieving, not just doling out
  14. The drops of expiation — no, nor tears distilled —
  15. Shall he we know of bring the hard about
  16. To soft — that intense ire