This composition about Triumph of Eternal Love
Robert Schumann - Franz Liszt

Widmung ("Devotion" I Dedication) is one of many lieder (German art songs) that Schumann wrote out of the fullness of his love for his beloved Clara. He had met her when she was a young teen, and the two nurtured a growing romance over the next several years despite the objections and outright bitter legal battles with her father. When they finally married in 1840 (once Clara was of legal age), Schumann composed a great deal of romantic lieder describing his feelings for his wife.

The lyrics

ou my soul, you my heart,
you my bliss, o you my pain,
you the world in which I live;
you my heaven, in which I float,
o you my grave, into which
I eternally cast my grief.

You are rest, you are peace,
you are bestowed upon me from heaven.
That you love me makes me worthy of you;
your gaze transfigures me;
you raise me lovingly above myself,
my good spirit, my better self!