Frauen-Liebe und Leben (Woman's Love and Life) is a cycle of poems by Adelbert von Chamisso, written in late 1829 and early 1830. They describe the course of a woman's love for a man, from their first meeting to her widowhood. The poems were widely popular and set to music by many composers, including Carl Loewe and Franz Lachner. Robert Schumann's song cycle on the text is the most widely known.

Adelbert von Chamisso wrote the cycle of nine poems in late 1829 and early 1830. It was first published in Franz Kugler's Skizzenbuch (Sketchbook, 1830) as "Frauen Liebe und Leben". They were part of a "Musical Appendix" where Kugler set Chamisso's words to music. Kugler socialized with Chamisso and dedicated the Skizzenbuch to him. Amadeus Wendt soon included the poems as "Frauen-Liebe und Leben" in his Musenalmanach (Muses' Almanac), which was published in 1830 for the following year.

In 1831, the poems were published twice in the first editions of Chamisso's poetry and his complete works. The cycle was widely admired in Germany, particularly by young women.

The nine poems in the cycle are untitled.

Chamisso classified the cycle as lyric narrative poems. His decision to write from the woman's perspective was also in the German tradition of role-playing poems (Rollengedichte). The poet's wife, Antonie, was nineteen years younger than him and the foster daughter of his friend Eduard Hitzig. She is supposedly the model for the woman in Chamisso's cycle.

The heroine's subservience and naivety have been summed up as "an elegant view of how the more authoritarian paterfamilias hoped to be regarded by his wife, and particularly how he assumed she would greet his death". She has also been dismissed as "a doormat". Chamisso filled a gap in contemporary poetry by writing from a woman's perspective. Likewise, the songs composed to his poems gave female singers a rare opportunity to sing first-person material.

Frauen-Liebe und Leben's first appearance in print were as lyrics for Franz Kugler's songs. Dozens of the cycle's poems were individually set to music by other composers. Chamisso was a botanist by trade, and he was stunned by the fondness composers had for his verse. In 1832, he wrote to a friend, "People sing my songs, they are sung in the salons, composers scramble for them, children recite them in school, my portrait appears after Goethe, Tieck and Schlegel as the fourth in the row of contemporary German poets."

In September 1836, Carl Loewe set the poems as Frauenliebe, Op. 60, for mezzo-soprano and piano. Only the first seven were published together during his life. The ninth song was published in 1869. In 1904, Breitkopf & Härtel published the eighth song for the first time in a complete edition of Loewe's works.