Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Such kind of steam as from a tomb is proper!
CHOROS.
  1. No Surian honour to the House thou speak’st of!
KASSANDRA.
  1. But I will go, — even in the household wailing
  2. My fate and Agamemnon’s. Life suffice me!
  3. Ah, strangers!
  4. I cry not ah — as bird at bush — through terror
  5. Idly! to me, the dead this much bear witness:
  6. When, for me — woman, there shall die a woman,
  7. And, for a man ill-wived, a man shall perish!
  8. This hospitality I ask as dying.
CHOROS.
  1. O sufferer, thee — thy foretold fate I pity.
KASSANDRA.
  1. Yet once for all, to speak a speech, I fain am:
  2. No dirge, mine for myself! The sun I pray to,
  3. Fronting his last light! — to my own avengers —
  4. That from my hateful slayers they exact too
  5. Pay for the dead slave — easy-managed hand’s work!