Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY, by ROBERT FROST



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First Line: Nature's first green is gold
Last Line: Nothing gold can stay.
Subject(s): Gold; Life Change Events; Transience; Impermanence


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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