Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

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