Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Loose under, quick — foot’s serviceable carriage!
  2. And me, on these sea-products walking, may no
  3. Grudge from a distance, from the god’s eye, strike at!
  4. For great shame were my strewment-spoiling — riches
  5. Spoiling with feet, and silver-purchased textures!
  6. Of these things, thus then. But this female-stranger
  7. Tenderly take inside! Who conquers mildly
  8. God, from afar, benignantly regardeth.
  9. For, willing, no one wears a yoke that’s servile:
  10. And she, of many valuables, outpicked
  11. The flower, the army’s gift, myself has followed.
  12. So, — since to hear thee, I am brought about thus, —
  13. I go into the palace — purples treading.
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. There is the sea — and what man shall exhaust it? —
  2. Feeding much purple’s worth-its-weight-in-silver
  3. Dye, ever fresh and fresh, our garments’ tincture;