Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Strophios the Phokian — ills that told on both sides
  2. To me predicting — both of thee ’neath Ilion
  3. The danger, and if anarchy’s mob-uproar
  4. Should overthrow thy council; since ’t is born with
  5. Mortals, — whoe’er has fallen, the more to kick him.
  6. 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
  7. As he went buzzing — sorrows that concerned thee
  8. Seeing, that filled more than their fellow-sleep-time.
  9. Now, all this having suffered, from soul grief-free
  10. I would style this man here the dog o’ the stables,