• Robert Frost, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" from New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1923. Public Domain.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by American composer Cecil William Bentz,[7] a choral setting of the poem in his opus, "Two Short Poems by Robert Frost."
  • '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 .
  • 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.
  • 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 result is a brief, powerful meditation on the transience of both beauty and life. Here’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay” as recited by Ponyboy in The Outsiders