| Nothing Gold Can Stay | |
|---|---|
| by Robert Frost | |
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| 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 |
| Full text | |
 Nothing Gold Can Stay at Wikisource | |
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.
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".
- ^ "New Hampshire". Stanford's Copyright Renewal Database. Stanford University. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
Registration Date: 15Nov23, Renewal Date: 20Sep51, Registration Number: A759931, Renewal Id: R83504
- ^ "Robert Frost – 5 Poems from NEW HAMPSHIRE (Newly released to the Public Domain)". Englewood Review of Books. February 2019. Retrieved 26 November 2019.