To Lady Beaumont
To Lady Beaumont - fact Summary
Dedicated to Lady Beaumont
This short poem is explicitly dedicated to Lady Beaumont, a friend of Wordsworth and his family. The speaker describes shaping a winter garden—planting beds, green bowers, and a labyrinth—to provide a perennial refuge. The imagined space, alive with spring music and murmuring pines, is offered for Lady Beaumont to visit in later life, promising solace whether she brings "solemn gloom" or "high gladness."
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