Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Set up, congratulating in the gods’ seats,
  2. Soothing the incense-eating flame right fragrant.
  3. And now, what’s more, indeed, why need’st thou tell me?
  4. I of the king himself shall learn the whole word:
  5. And, — as may best be, — I my revered husband
  6. Shall hasten, as he comes back, to receive: for —
  7. What’s to a wife sweeter to see than this light
  8. (Her husband, by the god saved, back from warfare)
  9. So as to open gates? This tell my husband —
  10. To come at soonest to his loving city.
  11. A faithful wife at home may he find, coming!
  12. Such an one as he left — the dog o’ the household —
  13. Trusty to him, adverse to the ill-minded,
  14. And, in all else, the same: no signet-impress
  15. Having done harm to, in that time’s duration.
  16. I know nor pleasure, nor blameworthy converse
  17. With any other man more than — bronze-dippings!
HERALD.
  1. Such boast as this — brimful of the veracious —
  2. Is, for a high-born dame, not bad to send forth!
CHOROS.
  1. Ay, she spoke thus to thee — that hast a knowledge