Inscriptions in the Ground of Coleorton
The Seat Of Sir George Beaumont, Leicestershire
Inscriptions in the Ground of Coleorton - context Summary
Commemorating Bosworth and Arts
Wordsworth addresses a commemorative cedar planted at Coleorton, linking landscape, artistic friendship, and historical memory. The poem praises the tree as a living monument planted by Sir George Beaumont and another hand, hopes it will shelter future painters and poets, and invokes the distant renown of the Battle of Bosworth Field. It also gestures to Elizabethan literary figures associated with that ground, folding local nature into art and national history.
Read Complete AnalysesTHE embowering rose, the acacia, and the pine, Will not unwillingly their place resign; If but the Cedar thrive that near them stands, Planted by Beaumont's and by 's hands. One wooed the silent Art with studious pains: These groves have heard the Other's pensive strains; Devoted thus, their spirits did unite By interchange of knowledge and delight. May Nature's kindliest powers sustain the Tree, And Love protect it from all injury! And when its potent branches, wide out-thrown, Darken the brow of this memorial Stone, Here may some Painter sit in future days, Some future Poet meditate his lays; Not mindless of that distant age renowned When Inspiration hovered o'er this ground, The haunt of him who sang how spear and shield In civil conflict met on Bosworth-field; And of that famous Youth, full soon removed From earth, perhaps by Shakspeare's self approved, Fletcher's Associate, Jonson's Friend beloved.
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