Melissa Dunphy

Commissioned by Choir Matrix Women's Ensemble, sponsored by Consonare Choral Community, Sarah Kaufold, Artistic Director.

Witch-Wife
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
From Renascence: And Other Poems (1917)

She is neither pink nor pale,
And she never will be all mine;
She learned her hands in a fairy-tale,
And her mouth on a valentine.

She has more hair than she needs;
In the sun 'tis a woe to me!
And her voice is a string of colored beads,
Or steps leading into the sea.

She loves me all that she can,
And her ways to my ways resign;
But she was not made for any man,
And she never will be all mine.

Artwork by Arnold Genthe (1914).

Performances

• 13 Oct, 2024: Vox Lusciniae at Third Presbyterian Church, Rochester, NY
• 12 Oct, 2024: Vox Lusciniae at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Buffalo, NY
• 15 Oct, 2023: Lilith Vocal Ensemble at First Parish UU, Needham, MA
• 14 Oct, 2023: Lilith Vocal Ensemble at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Cambridge, MA
• 20 Nov, 2021: Barksdale Treble Chorus and Botetourt Chamber Singers at Bruton Parish Episcopal Church, Williamsburg, VA
• 14 Nov, 2021: Choir Matrix/Voices of Concinnity at New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
• 28 Mar, 2021: Choir Matrix Women's Ensemble at Virtual