Nothing Gold Can Stay

by Robert Frost

Nothing Gold Can Stay was published in Frost's Pulitzer prize winning collection, New Hampshire in 1924.

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

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