Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem)

Nothing Gold Can Stay
by Robert Frost
Written1923
First published inThe Yale Review
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Subject(s)Transience, impermanence, beauty, nature, change
FormLyric poem
Meteriambic trimeter
Rhyme schemeAABBCCDD
Publication dateOctober 1923
Lines8
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Nothing Gold Can Stay

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.

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a short poem written by Robert Frost in 1923 and published in The Yale Review in October of that year. The theme mainly focuses on change, and describes nature as it changes.

It was later published in the collection New Hampshire (1923), which earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The poem lapsed into public domain in 2019. New Hampshire also included Frost's poems "Fire and Ice" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".

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