Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. And wrought immense annoy!
CHOROS.
  1. Daimon, who fallest
  2. Upon this household and the double-raced
  3. Tantalidai, a rule, minded like theirs displaced,
  4. Thou rulest me with, now,
  5. Whose heart thou gallest!
  6. And on the body, like a hateful crow,
  7. Stationed, all out of tune, his chant to chant
  8. Doth Something vaunt!
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Now, of a truth, hast thou set upright
  2. Thy mouth’s opinion, —
  3. Naming the Sprite,
  4. The triply gross,
  5. O’er the race that has dominion:
  6. For through him it is that Eros
  7. The carnage-licker