Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Truly, the woman’s way, — high to lift heart up!
  2. By such words I was made seem wit-bewildered:
  3. Yet still I sacrificed; and, — female-song with, —
  4. A shout one man and other, through the city,
  5. Set up, congratulating in the gods’ seats,
  6. Soothing the incense-eating flame right fragrant.
  7. And now, what’s more, indeed, why need’st thou tell me?
  8. I of the king himself shall learn the whole word:
  9. And, — as may best be, — I my revered husband
  10. Shall hasten, as he comes back, to receive: for —
  11. What’s to a wife sweeter to see than this light
  12. (Her husband, by the god saved, back from warfare)
  13. So as to open gates? This tell my husband —
  14. To come at soonest to his loving city.
  15. A faithful wife at home may he find, coming!
  16. Such an one as he left — the dog o’ the household —