Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Once only dying in each several figure!
  2. Because of suchlike rumours back-revenging,
  3. Many the halters from my neck, above head,
  4. Others than I loosed — loosed from neck by main force!
  5. From this cause, sure, the boy stands not beside me —
  6. Possessor of our troth-plights, thine and mine too —
  7. As ought Orestes: be not thou astonished!
  8. For, him brings up our well-disposed guest-captive