Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Nor, strewing it with garments, make my passage
  2. Envied! Gods, sure, with these behoves we honour:
  3. But, for a mortal on these varied beauties
  4. To walk — to me, indeed, is nowise fear-free.
  5. I say — as man, not god, to me do homage!
  6. Apart from foot-mats both and varied vestures,
  7. Renown is loud, and — not to lose one’s senses,
  8. God’s greatest gift. Behoves we him call happy