Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. We, either burning or else cutting kindly,
  2. Will make endeavour to turn pain from sickness.
  3. And now into the domes and homes by altar
  4. Going, I to the gods first raise the right-hand —
  5. They who, far sending, back again have brought me.
  6. And Victory, since she followed, fixed remain she!
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Men, citizens, Argeians here, my worships!
  2. I shall not shame me, consort-loving manners
  3. To tell before you: for in time there dies off
  4. The diffidence from people. Not from others
  5. Learning, I of myself will tell the hard life
  6. I bore so long as this man was ’neath Ilion.
  7. First: for a woman, from the male divided,
  8. To sit at home alone, is monstrous evil —
  9. Hearing the many rumours back-revenging:
  10. And for now This to come, now That bring after