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Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Nothing Gold can Stay


              1Nature's first green is gold,
              2Her hardest hue to hold.
              3Her early leaf's a flower;
              4But only so an hour.
              5Then leaf subsides to leaf.
              6So Eden sank to grief,
              7So dawn goes down to day.
              8Nothing gold can stay.


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Robert Frost, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1923), p. 84. D-11 0397 Fisher Library.
First publication date: 1923
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1998.
Recent editing: 2:2002/1/16

Form: couplets


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