Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Healer do thou become! — of this solicitude
  2. Which, now, stands plainly forth of evil mood,
  3. And, then . . . but from oblations, hope, to-day
  4. Gracious appearing, wards away
  5. From soul the insatiate care,
  6. The sorrow at my breast, devouring there!
CHOROS.
  1. Empowered am I to sing
  2. The omens, what their force which, journeying,
  3. Rejoiced the potentates:
  4. (For still, from God, inflates
  5. My breast song-suasion: age,
  6. Born to the business, still such war can wage)
  7. — How the fierce bird against the Teukris land
  8. Despatched, with spear and executing hand,
  9. The Achaian’s two-throned empery—o’er Hellas’ youth
  10. Two rulers with one mind:
  11. The birds’ king to these kings of ships, on high,
  12. — The black sort, and the sort that’s white behind, —
  13. Appearing by the palace, on the spear-throw side,
  14. In right sky-regions, visible far and wide, —