Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Leaving, — to holy seats she hies,
  2. Not worshipping the power of wealth
  3. Stamped with applause by stealth:
  4. And to its end directs each thing begun.
  1. Approach then, my monarch, of Troia the sacker, of Atreus the son!
  2. How ought I address thee, how ought I revere thee, — nor yet overhitting
  3. Nor yet underbending the grace that is fitting?
  4. Many of mortals hasten to honour the seeming-to-be —