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.


Another of my favorites.
This particular poem came to my attention while watching a movie entitled "The Outsiders". This was a film made solely because a group of students wrote the Studio and asked why the book had never been made into a movie. The Outsiders is a timeless movie, and this poem is a timeless poem. A poem and a movie about the death of innocence.

Starring:

Patrick Swayze
Rob Lowe
Tom Cruise
Matt Dillon
C. Thomas Howell
Ralph Macchio
Diane Lane
Emilio Estevez
Leif Garrett