Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. To pay him back the bringing me, with slaughter.
  2. Why keep I then these things to make me laughed at,
  3. Both wands and, round my neck, oracular fillets?
  4. Thee, at least, ere my own fate will I ruin:
  5. Go, to perdition falling! Boons exchange we —
  6. Some other Até in my stead make wealthy!
  7. See there — himself, Apollon stripping from me
  8. The oracular garment! having looked upon me
  9. — Even in these adornments, laughed by friends at,
  10. As good as foes, i’ the balance weighed: and vainly —
  11. For, called crazed stroller, — as I had been gipsy,
  12. Beggar, unhappy, starved to death, — I bore it.
  13. And now the Prophet — prophet me undoing,
  14. Has led away to these so deadly fortunes!
  15. Instead of my sire’s altar, waits the hack-block
  16. She struck with first warm bloody sacrificing!