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
  9. We underwent. And now, to me — dear headship! —
  10. Dismount thou from this car, not earthward setting
  11. The foot of thine, O king, that’s Ilion’s spoiler!
  12. Slave-maids, why tarry? — whose the task allotted
  13. To strew the soil o’ the road with carpet-spreadings.
  14. Immediately be purple-strewn the pathway,
  15. So that to home unhoped may lead him — Justice!
  16. As for the rest, care shall — by no sleep conquered —