The Song Remains the Same

I have been asked to write a 20 minute-ish long song cycle for contralto and piano, tentatively titled Portraits of Eve. I am looking at setting poems by female poets from the 19th and 20th centuries (pending proper permission is granted). The poems I will use look at love with a feminine perspective throughout a woman's life. It promises to be one of the most challenging and rewarding works that I have ever attempted to date.