Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Of Priamos: gods who, from no tongue hearing
  2. The rights o’ the cause, for Ilion’s fate man-slaught’rous
  3. Into the bloody vase, not oscillating,
  4. Put the vote-pebbles, while, o’ the rival vessel,
  5. Hope rose up to the lip-edge: filled it was not.
  6. By smoke the captured city is still conspicuous:
  7. Até’s burnt offerings live: and, dying with them,
  8. The ash sends forth the fulsome blasts of riches.
  9. Of these things, to the gods grace many-mindful
  10. ’T is right I render, since both nets outrageous
  11. We built them round with, and, for sake of woman,
  12. It did the city to dust — the Argeian monster,
  13. The horse’s nestling, the shield-bearing people
  14. That made a leap, at setting of the Pleiads,
  15. And, vaulting o’er the tower, the raw-flesh-feeding
  16. Lion licked up his fill of blood tyrannic.
  17. I to the gods indeed prolonged this preface;
  18. But — as for thy thought, I remember hearing —
  19. I say the same, and thou co-pleader hast me.
  20. Since few of men this faculty is born with —