• Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. ... Sign up for Poem-a-Day. * indicates required.
  • So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" from New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Reading of "Nothing Gold Can Stay". "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a short poem written by Robert Frost in 1923 and published in The Yale Review in October of that year.
  • 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' is a poem about the impermanence of life. It describes the fleeting nature of beauty by discussing time’s effect on nature.
  • "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a compact poem that packs a lot into its eight lines . These lines can be broken down into four sets of rhyming couplets .
  • Then leaf subsides to leaf, So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day Nothing gold can stay. Book: The Collected Poems by Robert Frost.
  • The poem's conclusion reinforces its central message: "Nothing gold can stay." This statement underscores the fleeting nature of beauty and the cyclical...