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
  9. Strophios the Phokian — ills that told on both sides
  10. To me predicting — both of thee ’neath Ilion
  11. The danger, and if anarchy’s mob-uproar
  12. Should overthrow thy council; since ’t is born with
  13. Mortals, — whoe’er has fallen, the more to kick him.
  14. Such an excuse, I think, no cunning carries!
  1. As for myself — why, of my wails the rushing
  2. Fountains are dried up: not in them a drop more!
  3. And in my late-to-bed eyes I have damage,
  4. Bewailing what concerned thee, those torch-holdings
  5. For ever unattended to. In dreams — why,
  6. Beneath the light wing-beats o’ the gnat, I woke up