June 7, 2026

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost
The Concise Verse
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost

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.

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"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost. Nature's first green is gold,

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Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower;

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But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf.

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So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day.

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Nothing gold can stay. "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost.

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