Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Yet nowise unavenged of gods will death be:
  2. For there shall come another, our avenger,
  3. The mother-slaying scion, father’s doomsman:
  4. Fugitive, wanderer, from this land an exile,
  5. Back shall he come, — for friends, copestone these curses!
  6. For there is sworn a great oath from the gods that
  7. Him shall bring hither his fallen sire’s prostration.
  8. Why make I then, like an indweller, moaning?
  9. Since at the first I foresaw Ilion’s city
  10. Suffering as it has suffered: and who took it,
  11. Thus by the judgment of the gods are faring.
  12. I go, will suffer, will submit to dying!
  13. But, Haides’ gates — these same I call, I speak to,
  14. And pray that on an opportune blow chancing,
  15. Without a struggle, — blood the calm death bringing
  16. In easy outflow, — I this eye may close up!