Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. The saviour forestay of the ship, the high roof’s
  2. Ground-prop, son sole-begotten to his father,
  3. — Ay, land appearing to the sailors past hope,
  4. Loveliest day to see after a tempest,
  5. To the wayfaring-one athirst a well-spring,
  6. — The joy, in short, of ’scaping all that ’s — fatal!
  7. I judge him worth addresses such as these are
  8. — Envy stand off! — for many those old evils