Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Thus in the mind of him he rages, falling,
  2. And blowing forth a brisk blood-spatter, strikes me
  3. With the dark drop of slaughterous dew — rejoicing
  4. No less than, at the god-given dewy-comfort,
  5. The sown-stuff in its birth-throes from the calyx.
  6. Since so these things are, — Argives, my revered here, —
  7. Ye may rejoice — if ye rejoice: but I — boast!
  8. If it were fit on corpse to pour libation,
  9. That would be right — right over and above, too!
  10. The cup of evils in the house he, having
  11. Filled with such curses, himself coming drinks of.
CHOROS.
  1. We wonder at thy tongue: since bold-mouthed truly
  2. Is she who in such speech boasts o’er her husband I
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Ye test me as I were a witless woman:
  2. But I — with heart intrepid — to you knowers
  3. Say (and thou — if thou wilt or praise or blame me,