Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. By us, o’er sea and land the aery flyers,
  2. Troia at last taking, the band of Argives
  3. Hang up such trophies to the gods of Hellas
  4. Within their domes — new glory to grow ancient!
  5. Such things men having heard must praise the city
  6. And army-leaders: and the grace which wrought them —
  7. Of Zeus, shall honoured be. Thou hast my whole word.
CHOROS.
  1. O’ercome by words, their sense I do not gainsay.
  2. For, aye this breeds youth in the old — to learn well.
  3. But these things most the house and Klutaimnestra
  4. Concern, ’t is likely: while they make me rich, too.
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. I shouted long ago, indeed, for joyance,
  2. When came that first night-messenger of fire
  3. Proclaiming Ilion’s capture and dispersion.
  4. And someone, girding me, said, Through fire-bearers
  5. Persuaded — Troia to be sacked now, thinkest?
  6. Truly, the woman’s way, — high to lift heart up!
  7. By such words I was made seem wit-bewildered:
  8. Yet still I sacrificed; and, — female-song with, —
  9. A shout one man and other, through the city,