- "Madrigal", a poem by Olive Custance (Rare garden where my heart goes gathering)
- "A Madrigal", a poem by Olive Custance (Ah! leave my soul like forest pool)
- "Madrigal", a poem by William Drummond (My thoughts hold mortal strife)
- "A Madrigal", a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar (Dream days of fond delight and hours)
- "Madrigal", a poem by William Maxwell (A wreath of fair flowers the maid)
- "A Madrigal", a poem by William Shakespeare (Crabbed age and youth cannot live together) from The Passionate Pilgrim
- "Madrigal", a song by William Shakespeare (Take, O take those lips away) from Measure for Measure
- "Madrigal", a song by William Shakespeare (Tell me where is fancy bred) from The Merchant of Venice
- "Madrigal", a poem by Edmund Clarence Stedman (Why should I constant be?)