Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. To Ilion Wrath, fulfilling her intent,
  2. This marriage-care — the rightly named so — sent:
  3. In after-time, for the tables’ abuse
  4. And that of the hearth-partaker Zeus,
  5. Bringing to punishment
  6. Those who honoured with noisy throat
  7. The honour of the bride, the hymenseal note
  8. Which did the kinsfolk then to singing urge.
  9. But, learning a new hymn for that which was,
  10. The ancient city of Priamos
  11. Groans probably a great and general dirge,
  12. Denominating Paris
  13. The man that miserably marries: —
  14. She who, all the while before,
  15. A life, that was a general dirge
  16. For citizens’ unhappy slaughter, bore.
  1. And thus a man, by no milk’s help,
  2. Within his household reared a lion’s whelp
  3. That loved the teat
  4. In life’s first festal stage: