Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. As he went buzzing — sorrows that concerned thee
  2. Seeing, that filled more than their fellow-sleep-time.
  3. Now, all this having suffered, from soul grief-free
  4. I would style this man here the dog o’ the stables,
  5. The saviour forestay of the ship, the high roof’s
  6. Ground-prop, son sole-begotten to his father,
  7. — Ay, land appearing to the sailors past hope,
  8. Loveliest day to see after a tempest,
  9. To the wayfaring-one athirst a well-spring,
  10. — The joy, in short, of ’scaping all that ’s — fatal!
  11. I judge him worth addresses such as these are
  12. — Envy stand off! — for many those old evils
  13. We underwent. And now, to me — dear headship! —
  14. Dismount thou from this car, not earthward setting
  15. The foot of thine, O king, that’s Ilion’s spoiler!
  16. Slave-maids, why tarry? — whose the task allotted
  17. To strew the soil o’ the road with carpet-spreadings.
  18. Immediately be purple-strewn the pathway,
  19. So that to home unhoped may lead him — Justice!
  20. As for the rest, care shall — by no sleep conquered —