Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem)
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a poem by Robert Frost, written in 1923, and published in the Yale Review in October of that year. It was later published in the collection New Hampshire (1923; copyright renewed 1951) that earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
New Hampshire also included Frost's poems "Fire and Ice" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."
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