Nothing Gold can Stay
Nothing Gold can Stay
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.
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.
Publication Start Year
1923
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1998.
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