DEATH OF CLYTEMNESTRA. BY WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, ESQ. ELECTRA. Pass on, my brother! She awaits the wretch, Dishonourer, despoiler, murderer, .. None other name shall name him!.. She How fond of her! how kind to all about, That he might gladden and teach us!.. how proud Of you, Orestes! tossing you above His joyous head, and calling you his crown! ORESTES. Loose me then; for this white hand, Electra, Hath fastened upon mine with fiercer grasp Than mine can grasp the sword. ELECTRA. Go, sweet Orestes! I knew not I was holding you.. Avenge him!.. (Orestes rushes out.) How he sprang from me! ... Sure he now has reacht The room before the bath! The bath-door opens! It hath creakt thus since he ... Since thou, O father Ever since thou didst loosen its strong valves Either with all thy dying weight, or strength Our father. . she made thee the scorn of slaves. Me (son of him who ruled this land, and Had let thy arm fall sooner at thy side, Without those drops List! they are audible, For they are many, from the sword's point falling, And down from the mid blade .. Too rash Orestes! 'Twas I, 'twas I, who did it! Of our unhappy house the most unhappy! There is no grief, there is no guilt, but mine. ORESTES. Electra! no! 'Tis now my turn to suffer . . . Mine be, with all its pangs, the righteous deed! FROM REDI. BY WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, ESQ. 1. Ye gentle souls! ye love-devoted fair! 2. There was a woman, to whose hallow'd breast Faith had retired, and Honour fixt his throne; Pride, tho' upheld by Virtue, she represt. . . Ye gentle souls! that woman was my own. 3. Beauty was more than beauty in her face; Grace was in all she did, in all she said ; Grace in her pleasures, in her sorrows grace.. Ye gentle souls! that gentle soul is fled. |