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--

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: A Woman of Thirty by Marjorie Allen Seiffert
• 2: Let the deacon pray And the doctor talk
• 3: The Silent Pool Your smile is a heron
• 4: Evening the Taj Mahal A Lover Speaks Beloved
• 5: I too am a bell Chiming to the winds
• 6: I hear their words Falling like icicles Upon me
• 7: Four lesser lions crouch and malign the cranes
• 8: The eyes of the pedlar glisten
• 9: THE DREAM Harlequin comes to me
• 10: The Last Illusion Along the twilight road I met three women
• 11: The picnic basket's Rattling dismally
• 12: Their days of leaping nearly done
• 13: A passionate woman her I mourn
• 14: IV Maura cannot follow over the hill
• 15: The Pathway of Black Leaves I
• 16: Doorways open a square embrace
• 17: VEILS I shall punish your blindness With a veil
• 18: Poems of Elijah Hay The Golden Stag O hungry hearted ones
• 19: Lolita How curious to find in you
• 20: Lolita Now Is Old Lolita now is old