Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Nobody knows so as to tell out clearly
  2. Excepting Helios who sustains earth’s nature.
CHOROS.
  1. How say’st thou then, did storm the naval army
  2. Attack and end, by the celestials’ anger?
HERALD.
  1. It suits not to defile a day auspicious
  2. With ill-announcing speech: distinct each god’s due:
  3. And when a messenger with gloomy visage
  4. To a city bears a fall’n host’s woes— God ward off! —