Bryars, Gavin: Third Book of Madrigals

Contents

• 1. Laura being dead, Petrarch finds trouble in all the things of the earth
• 2. He asks his heart to raise itself up to God
• 3. He wishes he might die and follow Laura
• 4. Laura is ever present to him
• 5. He considers that he should set little store on earthly beauty
• 6. He recalls his visions of her
• 7. He finds comfort and rest in his sorrows
• 8. He ceases to speak of her graces and her virtues which are no more
• 9. He considers the reasons for his verses
• 10. He is jealous of the heaven's and the earth
• 11. The fine time of the year increases Petrarch's sorrow
• 12. He understands the great cruelty of death
• 13. The sight of Laura's house reminds him of the great happiness he has lost
• 14. He sends his rhymes to the tomb of Laura to pray her to call him to her
• 15. Only he who mourns her and Heaven that possesses her knew her while she lived
• 16. Petrarch is unable to contain his grief
• 17. Laura waits for him in heaven