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
  17. We, either burning or else cutting kindly,
  18. Will make endeavour to turn pain from sickness.
  19. And now into the domes and homes by altar
  20. Going, I to the gods first raise the right-hand —