Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. In either: but in oldest age’s case,
  2. Foliage a-fading, why, he wends his way
  3. On three feet, and, no stronger than a child,
  4. Wanders about gone wild,
  5. A dream in day.
  1. But thou, Tundareus’ daughter, Klutaimnestra queen,
  2. What need? What new? What having heard or seen,
  3. By what announcement’s tidings, everywhere
  4. Settest thou, round about, the sacrifice a-flare?
  5. For, of all gods the city-swaying,
  6. Those supernal, those infernal,
  7. Those of the fields’, those of the mart’s obeying, —
  8. The altars blaze with gifts;
  9. And here and there, heaven-high the torch uplifts
  10. Flame-medicated with persuasions mild,
  11. With foul admixture unbeguiled —
  12. Of holy unguent, from the clotted chrism
  13. Brought from the palace, safe in its abysm.
  14. Of these things, speaking what may be indeed
  15. Both possible and lawful to concede,