The Internet Classics Archive | Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus by Prometheus Bound

Author:Prometheus Bound [Bound, Prometheus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

PROMETHEUS How should I hear thee not? Thou art the child

Of Inachus, dazed with the dizzying fly.

The heart of Zeus thou hast made hot with love

And Hera's curse even as a runner stripped

Pursues thee ever on thine endless round.

IO How dost thou know my father's name? Impart

To one like thee

A poor, distressful creature, who thou art.

Sorrow with me,

Sorrowful one! Tell me, whose voice proclaims

Things true and sad,

Naming by all their old, unhappy names,

What drove me mad-

Sick! Sick! ye Gods, with suffering ye have sent,

That clings and clings;

Wasting my lamp of life till it be spent!

Crazed with your stings!

Famished I come with trampling and with leaping,

Torment and shame,

To Hera's cruel wrath, her craft unsleeping,

Captive and tame

Of all wights woe-begone and fortune-crossed,

Oh, in the storm

Of the world's sorrow is there one so lost?

Speak, godlike form,

And be in this dark world my oracle I

Can'st thou not sift

The things to come? Hast thou no art to tell

What subtle shift,

Or sound of charming song shall make me well?

Hide naught of ill

But-if indeed thou knowest-prophesy-

In words that thrill

Clear-toned through air-what such a wretch as

Must yet abide-

The lost, lost maid that roams earth's kingdoms wide?

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