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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE AWAKENING RIVER by KATHERINE MANSFIELD ESTHER; A YOUNG MAN'S TRAGEDY: 51 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT BY THE ALMA RIVER by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK THE ECSTASY [EXTASIE] by JOHN DONNE LIMERICK by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD GREEK ARCHITECTURE by HERMAN MELVILLE ECHO [OR, ECHOES] by THOMAS MOORE |