Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Ah me!
  2. Law-breaking Helena who, one,
  3. Hast many, so many souls undone
  4. ’Neath Troia! and now the consummated
  5. Much-memorable curse
  6. Hast thou made flower-forth, red
  7. With the blood no rains disperse,
  8. That which was then in the House —
  9. Strife all-subduing, the woe of a spouse.
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Nowise, of death the fate —
  2. Burdened by these things — supplicate!
  3. Nor on Helena turn thy wrath
  4. As the man-destroyer, as she who hath,
  5. Being but one,
  6. Many and many a soul undone
  7. Of the men, the Danaoi —