Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. And Fortune, saviour, willing on our ship sat.
  2. So as it neither had in harbour wave-surge
  3. Nor ran aground against a shore all rocky.
  4. And then, the water-Haides having fled from
  5. In the white day, not trusting to our fortune,
  6. We chewed the cud in thoughts — this novel sorrow
  7. O’ the army labouring and badly pounded.
  8. And now — if anyone of them is breathing —