Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. But, learning a new hymn for that which was,
  2. The ancient city of Priamos
  3. Groans probably a great and general dirge,
  4. Denominating Paris
  5. The man that miserably marries: —
  6. She who, all the while before,
  7. A life, that was a general dirge
  8. 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:
  5. Gentle as yet,
  6. A true child-lover, and, to men of age,
  7. A thing whereat pride warms;
  8. And oft he had it in his arms