Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. How shall I mix good things with evil, telling
  2. Of storm against the Achaioi, urged by gods’ wrath?
  3. For they swore league, being arch-foes before that,
  4. Fire and the sea: and plighted troth approved they,
  5. Destroying the unhappy Argeian army.
  6. At night began the bad-wave-outbreak evils;
  7. For, ships against each other Threkian breezes
  8. Shattered: and these, butted at in a fury