Thursday, October 23, 2008

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.

--Robert Frost, "Nothing Gold Can Stay"

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice coloring in the "slit" betwee the two metal things. Photoshopped or not?

Ello Shertzer said...

intense pictorum

Carissa said...

thats one of my favorite poems ever