Greek dramatist (525 B.C.-456 B.C.)
To weep and lament over misfortunes, when it draws the sympathizing tear, brings no light recompense.
AESCHYLUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
A phantom queen through all the house shall rove; and all the joy doth flee the sculptured forms of beauty once did give; and in the penury of eyes that live, all Aphrodite's grace is lost in empty space.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Look to it and consider, and deem not
That ever stubbornness excels discretion.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
Both silent, when there is need, and speaking in season.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Prometheus Pyrphoros
The base of justice is firmly set,
and fate, the swordsmith, hammers out
her sword beforehand.
AESCHYLUS
Libation Bearers
For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Toxotides
On the life-giving lap of Earth
Blood hath flowed forth;
And now, the seed of vengeance, clots the plain--
Unmelting, uneffaced the stain.
AESCHYLUS
The Libation Bearers
When a match has equal partners, then I fear not.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.
AESCHYLUS
fragment