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Marjorie Allen Seiffert

  • “Lust is the oldest lion of them all ...”

    • Marjorie Allen Seiffert,
    • "An Italian Chest," A Woman of Thirty ()

  • “Yesterday's beauty and joy lie deep / In sorrow's heart, asleep.”

    • Marjorie Allen Seiffert,
    • "Sorrow," A Woman of Thirty ()

  • “The I that does not love you / I have kept hidden away / In the dark. / (I never dreamed / There was a You / That does not love me!) / Tonight they met.”

    • Marjorie Allen Seiffert,
    • "Winter Night," A Woman of Thirty ()

  • “... when I search your soul until / I see too deeply and divine / That you can never love me — Still / I hold you fast for you are mine!”

    • Marjorie Allen Seiffert,
    • " Possession," A Woman of Thirty ()

  • “My cowardice / Covers me safely / From everything ...”

    • Marjorie Allen Seiffert,
    • "Portrait of a Lady in Bed," A Woman of Thirty ()

  • “I, John Shepherd, vagrant, / Petition the park commissioners / For wider benches.”

    • Marjorie Allen Seiffert,
    • "From the Madison Street Police Station," A Woman of Thirty ()

  • “They who dance / Find infinite golden floors / Beneath their feet.”

    • Marjorie Allen Seiffert,
    • "Sequence," A Woman of Thirty ()

Marjorie Allen Seiffert, U.S. poet

(1885 - 1970)