Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Hope rose up to the lip-edge: filled it was not.
  2. By smoke the captured city is still conspicuous:
  3. Até’s burnt offerings live: and, dying with them,
  4. The ash sends forth the fulsome blasts of riches.
  5. Of these things, to the gods grace many-mindful
  6. ’T is right I render, since both nets outrageous
  7. We built them round with, and, for sake of woman,
  8. It did the city to dust — the Argeian monster,
  9. The horse’s nestling, the shield-bearing people
  10. That made a leap, at setting of the Pleiads,
  11. And, vaulting o’er the tower, the raw-flesh-feeding
  12. Lion licked up his fill of blood tyrannic.
  13. I to the gods indeed prolonged this preface;
  14. But — as for thy thought, I remember hearing —
  15. I say the same, and thou co-pleader hast me.
  16. Since few of men this faculty is born with —