But when indeed the day with her white steedsHeld all the earth, resplendent to behold,First from the Greeks the loud-resounding dinOf song triumphant came; and shrill at onceEcho responded from the island rock.Then upon all barbarians terror fell,Thus disappointed; for not as for flightThe Hellenes sang the holy pæan then,But setting forth to battle valiantly.The…
Thrills every hair with fear,In haunted sleep,Breathing of dire distress,From innermost recessIts watch doth keep,Breaking with cry of frightThe still deep hush of night:All through the queenly bowerSharp cry was heard that hour,And they to whom ’twas givenTo read decrees of Heaven,In dream o’ertrue,By solemn pledges bound,Declared that undergroundThe dead were wrathful found‘Gainst those that…
Thy proper mother’s son, I will announce,What fortune for this city, for himself,With curses he invoketh:–on the wallsAscending, heralded as king, to stand,With paeans for their capture; then with theeTo fight, and either slaying near thee die,Or thee, who wronged him, chasing forth alive,Requite in kind his proper banishment.Such words he shouts, and calls upon…
The limit of his life’s span, coincide;Nor does the man who by the hearth at homeSits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.
While the lawless criminal is forcibly dragged underIn the current of time when from the shattered mastThe elements rip down his sails.He shouts, there is no ear to hear himStruggling, hopeless, at the maelstrom’s center.Gods laugh at the transgressor now,Watching him, his pride now wrecked,Caught in desperation’s shackles.He flees the rocks in vain;His fortunes smash…
Yet is his heart’s desire full hard to trace;Nathless in every placeBrightly it gleameth, e’en in darkest night,Fraught with black fate to man’s speech-gifted race.ANTISTROPHE IVSteadfast, ne’er thrown in fight,The deed in brow of Zeus to ripeness brought;For wrapt in shadowy night,Tangled, unscanned by mortal sight,Extend the pathways of his secret thought.STROPHE VFrom towering hopes…
beat my brainhot i’m hotwhere’s the fire?here’s horseflyHis Arrowheadnot fire forgedbut sticks: heartstuck with fearkicks at my ribseye balls whirlspirally wheeledby madness, madnessstormblasted I’mblown off coursemy tongue my tillerit’s unhinged, flappywords words thrashdashed O! at doommud churning upbreaking in waves
Aegisthus to the strangers, that he comeAnd hear more clearly, as a man from man,This newly brought report. Before her slaves,Under set eyes of melancholy cast,She hid her inner chuckle at the eventsThat have been brought to pass–too well for her,But for this house and hearth most miserably,–As in the tale the strangers clearly told.He,…
And River-wells, and laughter innumerousOf yon Sea-waves! Earth, mother of us all,And all-viewing cyclic Sun, I cry on you,–Behold me a god, what I endure from gods!Behold, with throe on throe,How, wasted by this woe,I wrestle down the myriad years of Time!Behold, how fast around meThe new King of the happy ones sublimeHas flung the…
