• 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.
    • Nature’s first green is gold
    • Her hardest hue to hold.
    • Nothing gold can stay.
  • 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
  • ...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.
  • Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower ... 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.
  • So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. ... The poem's conclusion reinforces its central message: "Nothing gold can stay."
  • When the speaker says that "Nothing gold can stay," this is thus a symbolic reference to the idea that no beauty or joy—really, no good thing—can last forever.