Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Alas for mortal matters! Happy-fortuned, —
  2. Why, any shade would turn them: if unhappy,
  3. By throws the wetting sponge has spoiled the picture!
  4. And more by much in mortals this I pity.
  5. The being well-to-do —
  6. Insatiate a desire of this
  7. Born with all mortals is,
  8. Nor any is there who
  9. Well-being forces off, aroints
  10. From roofs whereat a finger points,
  11. No more come in! exclaiming. This man, too,
  12. To take the city of Priamos did the celestials give,
  13. And, honoured by the god, he homeward comes;
  14. But now if, of the former, he shall pay
  15. The blood back, and, for those who ceased to live,
  16. Dying, for deaths in turn new punishment he dooms—