Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. To honour, without grudge, their friend, successful.
  2. For moody, on the heart, a poison seated
  3. Its burthen doubles to who gained the sickness:
  4. By his own griefs he is himself made heavy,
  5. And out-of-door prosperity seeing groans at.
  6. Knowing, I’d call (for well have I experienced)
  7. Fellowship’s mirror,phantom of a shadow,
  8. Those seeming to be mighty gracious to me:
  9. While just Odusseus — he who sailed not willing —
  10. When joined on, was to me the ready trace-horse.
  11. This of him, whether dead or whether living,
  12. I say. For other city-and-gods’ concernment —
  13. Appointing common courts, in full assemblage
  14. We will consult. And as for what holds seemly —
  15. How it may lasting stay well, must be counselled:
  16. While what has need of medicines Paionian