Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. The horse’s nestling, the shield-bearing people
  2. That made a leap, at setting of the Pleiads,
  3. And, vaulting o’er the tower, the raw-flesh-feeding
  4. Lion licked up his fill of blood tyrannic.
  5. I to the gods indeed prolonged this preface;
  6. But — as for thy thought, I remember hearing —
  7. I say the same, and thou co-pleader hast me.
  8. Since few of men this faculty is born with —