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
This week's Poetry Friday is hosted by Wild Rose Reader. Enjoy!
5 comments:
This is one of my favorites too. Hold onto those golden moments!
I first read this as a kid, and I guess it's been buried somewhere in those mental files ever since, though I know it affected me strongly at the time. Thanks for reminding me!
This poem always reminds me of the book/movie The Outsiders.
Stay gold, Ponyboy.
love the new look! very warm
Z-Dad
I flashed to The Outsiders as well!!! Loved that poem, probably the only poem I can recite from MS/HS altogether!!
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