Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem)
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"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.
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Nothing Gold Can Stay | |
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by Robert Frost | |
Written | 1923 |
First published in | The Yale Review |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject(s) | Transience, impermanence, beauty, nature, change |
Form | Lyric poem |
Meter | iambic trimeter |
Rhyme scheme | AABBCCDD |
Publication date | October 1923 |
Lines | 8 |
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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.
It was later published in the collection New Hampshire (1923),[1] which earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The poem lapsed into public domain in 2019.[2] New Hampshire also included Frost's poems "Fire and Ice" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".