Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Nature's First Green Really Is Gold

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Robert Frost

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.










I think of this poem every year when things begin to bud out, and new tiny leaves emerge. They have a special brightness, not quite green. And as the poem points out, nothing stays new and untouched forever.



4 comments:

  1. The first signs of spring are absolutely beautiful.

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  2. What a lovely sharing, thank you.

    Have a Thankful Thursday
    from Roberta Anne

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  3. Great poem and pics. I love poetry!

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  4. How true, and doesn't this make spring so much more precious?

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