Lark in the Morning

Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Dawn of a New Age
 
Guillem de Peiteus
Ab la dolchor del temps novel / A New Song for New Days
Farai un vers de dreyt nien / The Nothing Song
Farai un vers, pos mi somelh / The Ladies with the Cat

Cercamon
Quant l'aura doussa s'amarzis / When the Sweet Air Goes Bitter

Marcabru
A la fontana del vergier / By the Bank
L'autrier jost' una sebissa / The Peasant Lassie
Pax in nomine Domini! / The Cleansing Place

Jaufre Rudel
Lanquan li jorn / A Love Afar
Quan lo rossinhol el fulhos / The Nightingale

Part 2: Zenith of the Troubadours

Bernart de Ventadorn
Can vei la lauzeta mover / The Skylark
Can l'erba fresch' / When Tender Grass and Leaves Appear
Pois preyatz me, senhor / You've Asked, My Lords, for Song
Lancan vei la folha / Now the Birds Are Leaving
Be m'an perdut lai enves Ventadorn / Farewell to Ventadorn
Non es meravelha s'eu chan / No Marvel If My Song's the Best

Peire d'Alvernhe
Rossinhol, el seu repaire / Nightengale, for Me Take Flight
Deiosta ls breus iorns e ls loncs sers / When Days Grow Short and Night Advances

Raimbaut d'Aurenga
Er resplan la flors enversa / Splendid Are the Flowers Reversed
Escotatz, mas no say que s'es / Beg Pardon, Lords

Guiraut de Bornelh
Reis glorios / Day's Glorious Lord
Can lo freitz e l glatz e la neus / When the Ice and Cold and Snow Retreat

Peire Bremon lo Tort
En abril, quan vey verdeyar / From Syria

Bertran de Born
Be m platz lo gais temps de pascor / A War Song
Un sirventes on motz no falh / Quarrels Where Words Don't Miss Fire
Domna, puois de me no us chal / Lady, Since You Care Nothing for Me
Ieu m'escondisc, domna, que mal no mier / He Protests His Innocence to a Lady
Belh m'es, quan vey camjar lo senhoratge / The Secret to Staying Young
Si tuit li dol e il plor e il marrimen / Planh for the Young English King

Comtessa de Dia
Estat ai en greu cossirier / Cruel Are the Pains I've Suffered
A chantar m'er de so q'ieu no volria / I'm Forced to Sing

Maria de Ventadorn and Gui d'Ussel
Gui d'Ussel be m pesa de vos / When a Lady Loves

Monge de Montaudon
Mout me platz deportz e gaieza / What I Like
Be m'enueia, s'o auzes dire / What I Don't Like

Arnaut Daniel
Chansson do il mot son plan e prim / I'll Make a Song
Autet e bas entrels prims fuoills / Now High and Low, Where Leaves Renew
Doutz brais e critz / Sweet Cries and Cracks
Can chai la fueilla / When Sere Leaf Falleth
L'aura amara / The Bitter Air
En cest sonet coind'e leri / Canzon: Of the Trades and Love

Arnaut de Marueill
Si m destreignetz, dompna, vos et Amors / Lady, by You and Love I Am So Swayed
Belh m'es quan lo vens m'alena / Fair Is It to Me

Gaucelm Faidit
Del gran golfe de mar / From the Depths of the Sea

Peire Vidal
Pos tornatz sui en Proensa / To Provence I Can Return Now
Ab l'alen tir vas me l'aire / The Song of Breath

Peirol
Atressi co l signes fai / Even as the Swan

Raimbaut de Vaqueiras
Kalenda maya / May Day

Guillem de Cabestanh
Lo jorn qu'ie us vi, dompna, primeiramen / That Day, My Lady, When I First Discovered That You Exist

Part 3: Destruction of the Southern Courts
Folquet de Marseilla
Tant m'abellis l'amoros pessamens / So Pleasureth Me the Amorous Thought

Peire Cardenal
Una ciutatz fo, no sai cals / There Was a Town
Ar me puesc ieu lauzar d'Amor / I Dare to Claim, Now, Love Cannot
Un sirventes novel vueill comensar / A New Protest Song

Guillem Figueira
D'un sirventes far en est son que m'agenssa / Rome, Where Goodness Declines

Sordel
Planher vuelh En Blacatz en aquest leugier so / I Want to Mourn Blacatz

Guillelma de Rosers and Lanfranc Cigala
Na Guillelma, maunt cavalier arratge / Which of the Two Behaved Most Fittingly?

Guiraut Riquier
Be m degra de chantar tener / It Would Be Best If I Refrained from Singing

Appendix: Alternate Translations
Cercamon
When the Soft Wind Turns Bitter (Quant l'aura doussa s'amarzis)
Folquet de Marseilla
So Much Does the Anxiety of Love Please Me
(Tant m'abellis l'amoros pessamens)

Notes
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index of First Lines and Titles