Robert Frost ~ Nothing Gold Can Stay

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.

Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963 

Source:

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/nothing-gold-can-stay