(March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963 / San Francisco)

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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.

Submitted: Friday, January 03, 2003


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  • S W (6/7/2013 3:50:00 PM)

    I think it's just a comment on the impermanence of great beauty.

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  • Karthik Madhira (4/28/2013 7:04:00 PM)

    This really affects my heart. The extended metaphor is fabulously expressed through the brilliant vocabulary and organization.

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  • Ryann Harrington (3/26/2013 9:08:00 PM)

    My favorite poem!
    I will always stay gold! !

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  • Natasha Foster (3/20/2013 11:02:00 AM)

    One of the only poems I have memorized. :)

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  • * Sunprincess * (10/31/2012 12:50:00 AM)

    so the waterfalls flow down through the rivers to the ocean..nothing gold can stay..fabulous.. :)

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  • Show Me The Glint Of Light On Broken Glass (8/31/2012 3:29:00 PM)

    stay golden ponyboy

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  • Lyly Figueroa (5/16/2012 8:48:00 PM)

    This poem is saying, you may love something/someone and adore it. But sometimes they have to go. For a bad reason or a good reason. -Lyly Figueroa

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  • Lorenz Sapungan (5/3/2012 8:07:00 AM)

    Nature's first green is gold,
    Her hardest hue to hold. - early spring - Hope

    Her early leaf's a flower;
    But only so an hour.- Summer -Happiness

    Then leaf subsides to leaf, - Fall- sadness

    So Eden sank to grief, - Winter- Sorrow

    So dawn goes down to day
    Nothing gold can stay. - Life's go on

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  • Sam Baig (4/30/2012 7:59:00 PM)

    Poems interest me very much, so I would say Robert Frost is my number 1 poet following that is Emily Dickinson. I also agree with Rebecca Weall.

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  • Turner Paquette (4/11/2012 11:29:00 PM)

    All of you are saying that the peom is too plain in the reference to the beauty of nature, but if you actually do your research on the peom it is referring the bible and the garden of Eden. The garden was beautiful until it was messed with. Hence the beauty of nature is at the peak when it's new, untouched by people or weathered away by the elements.

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