Alcestis
Euripides
Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.
- Take thou my place and be a mother to these babes.
- Sore will be their need when they are reft of thee.
- O my children, I am passing to that world below, when my life was needed most.
- Ah me, what can I do bereft of thee?
- Thy sorrow Time will soothe; ’tis the dead who are as naught.