Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Settest thou, round about, the sacrifice a-flare?
  2. For, of all gods the city-swaying,
  3. Those supernal, those infernal,
  4. Those of the fields’, those of the mart’s obeying, —
  5. The altars blaze with gifts;
  6. And here and there, heaven-high the torch uplifts
  7. Flame-medicated with persuasions mild,
  8. With foul admixture unbeguiled —