Agamemnon
Aeschylus
Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.
- We, either burning or else cutting kindly,
- Will make endeavour to turn pain from sickness.
- And now into the domes and homes by altar
- Going, I to the gods first raise the right-hand —
- They who, far sending, back again have brought me.
- And Victory, since she followed, fixed remain she!
- Men, citizens, Argeians here, my worships!
- I shall not shame me, consort-loving manners
- To tell before you: for in time there dies off
- The diffidence from people. Not from others
- Learning, I of myself will tell the hard life
- I bore so long as this man was ’neath Ilion.
- First: for a woman, from the male divided,
- To sit at home alone, is monstrous evil —
- Hearing the many rumours back-revenging:
- And for now This to come, now That bring after