Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Woe, and still worse woe, bawling in the household!
  2. And truly, if so many wounds had chanced on
  3. My husband here, as homeward used to dribble
  4. Report, he’s pierced more than a net to speak of!
  5. While, were he dying (as the words abounded)
  6. A triple-bodied Geruon the Second,
  7. Plenty above — for loads below I count not —
  8. Of earth a three-share cloak he’d boast of taking,
  9. Once only dying in each several figure!
  10. Because of suchlike rumours back-revenging,
  11. Many the halters from my neck, above head,
  12. Others than I loosed — loosed from neck by main force!
  13. From this cause, sure, the boy stands not beside me —
  14. Possessor of our troth-plights, thine and mine too —
  15. As ought Orestes: be not thou astonished!
  16. For, him brings up our well-disposed guest-captive