Source: Robert Frost, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (New York: Henry Holt, 1923), first edition, Grace Notes, p. 84 (Internet Archive page images, leaf n98); cross-checked with Project Gutenberg #58611
Source URL: https://archive.org/details/goog_a9xaAAAAMAAJ; https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58611
Public domain basis: First published in The Yale Review, October 1923; collected in New Hampshire (1923); public domain in the United States (published before 1931).
Coverage: Complete: the poem as printed on page 84 of the 1923 first edition of New Hampshire.


# 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.