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    A Woman of Thirty
    A Woman of Thirty
    A Woman of Thirty
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    A Woman of Thirty

    By Marjorie Allen Seiffert

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      A Woman of Thirty - Marjorie Allen Seiffert

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Woman of Thirty, by Marjorie Allen Seiffert

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: A Woman of Thirty

      Author: Marjorie Allen Seiffert

      Posting Date: August 8, 2009 [EBook #4556] Release Date: October, 2003 First Posted: February 10, 2002

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A WOMAN OF THIRTY ***

      Produced by Catherine Daly

      A WOMAN OF THIRTY

      Marjorie Allen Seiffert

      New York

      1919

      To O.H.S.

      CONTENTS

      I. The Old Woman

      A Morality Play

      II. Love Poems in Summer

          Singalese Love Songs I-V

          The Silent Pool

          Nocturne

          Theme Arranged for Organ I-III

          The Moonlight Sonata

          Possession

          Evening: the Taj Mahal

          The Gift

          The Bridge

          A Temple I-VII

          Candles

          Winter Night

          Last Days I-V

          Sorrow

          Prison

          The Dream House

      III. Studies and Designs

          Design for a Japanese Vase

          The Bow Moon (A Print by Hirosage)

          An Italian Chest

          The Pedlar

          Portrait of a Lady in Bed I-V

          Portrait of a Gentleman

          From the Madison Street Police Station

          La Felice

          The Journey

          The Last Illusion

          The Desert

          The Picnic

      IV. Interlude

          Mountain Trails I-VII

          October Morning

          October Afternoon

          Maternity

          The Father Speaks

          To Allen

          To Helen

          The Immortal

          To an Absent Child I-IV

          Summer Night

          Maura I-VI

          November Dusk

          Winter Valley I-IV

      V. Love Poems in Autumn

          Ballad

          The Pathway of Black Leaves I-IV

          Elegy

          Sequence I-X

          Disillusion

          November Afternoon

          Yareth at Solomon's Tomb

          Argolis

          St. Faith's Eve

      Poems of Elijah Hay

          The Golden Stag

          To Anne Knish

          Lolita

          Spectrum of Mrs. Q

          Epitaph

          A Sixpence

          Three Spectra

          Two Commentaries

          A Womanly Woman

          Lolita Now is Old

          The Shining Bird

          The King Sends Three Cats to Guinevere

          Ode in the New Mode

          Night

        I. The Old Woman

        (A Morality Play)

        The Old Woman

        (A Morality Play)

        Characters:

        The Woman

        The House

        The Doctor

        The Deacon

        The Landlady

        Doctor:

        There is an old woman

        Who ought to die—

        Deacon:

        And nobody knows

        But what she's dead—

        Doctor:

        The air will be cleaner

        When she's gone—

        Deacon:

        But we dare not bury her

        Till she's dead—

        Landlady:

        Come, young doctor

        From the first floor front,

        Come, dusty deacon,

        From the fourth floor back,

        You take her heels

        And I'll take her head—

        Doctor and Deacon:

        We'll carry her

        And bury her

        If she's dead!

        House:

        They roll her up

        In her old, red quilt,

        They carry her down

        At a horizontal tilt,

        She doesn't say Yes

        And she doesn't say No,

        She doesn't say, "Gentlemen,

        Where do we go?"

        Doctor:

        Out in the lot

        Where ash-cans die,

        There, old woman,

        There shall you lie!

        Deacon:

        Let's hurry away

        And never look behind

        To see if her eyes

        Are dead and blind,

        To see if the quilt

        Lies over her face—

        Perhaps she'll groan

        Or move in her place!

        House:

        The room is empty

        Where the old woman lay,

        And I no longer

        Smell like a tomb—

        Landlady:

        Doctor, deacon,

        Can you say

        Who'll pay rent

        For the old woman's room?

      * * * * * * *

        House:

        The room is empty

        Down the hall,

        There are mice in the closet,

        Ghosts in the wall—

        A pretty little lady

        Comes to see—

        Woman:

        Oh, what a dark room,

        Not for me!

        Landlady:

        The room is large

        And the rent is low,

        There's a deacon above

        And a doctor below—

        Deacon:

        When the little mice squeak

        I shall pray—

        Doctor:

        I'll psycho-analyse

        The ghosts away—

        Landlady:

        The bed is large

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