Poem by Robert Lee Frost

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.

1. The Peaceful Shepherd
2. For Once, Then, Something
3. The Egg and the Machine
4. The Exposed Nest
5. An Empty Threat

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