Natures First Green Is Gold

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Nature's first greenish is gold

Language:English

Nature'south first light-green is gold,  Her hardest hue to concord. Her early foliage's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leafage subsides to leaf. Then Eden sank to grief, And so dawn goes downwards to day. Naught gold can stay.

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Authorship:

by Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), "Cipher gilt can stay", appears in New Hampshire, starting time published 1923[author's text checked 1 fourth dimension against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by William Thayer Ames (1901 - 1987), "Nothing gold can stay", published 1944[sung text non yet checked]
by Cecil William Bentz (b. 1915), "Nix aureate can stay" [ chorus ], from Two Brusk Poems past Robert Frost[sung text non nonetheless checked]
past Alva Henderson (b. 1940), "Nix golden", 1968, first performed 1970, from A Seasonal Songbook, no. 1[sung text checked 1 time]
past John Musto (b. 1954), "Nothing golden can stay", from Two past Frost, no. 1[sung text not yet checked]
by Nick Peros (b. 1963), "Nothing gold can stay"[sung text checked 1 time]
by Rick Sowash (b. 1950), "Naught gilded can stay", 1973 [ STB chorus ][sung text not notwithstanding checked]
by Rick Sowash (b. 1950), "Nothing gold can stay", 1973 [ mezzo-soprano, unaccompanied ][sung text not withal checked]
past Pasquale J. Spino (b. 1942), "Nothing gold can stay", published 1971 [ satb chorus a cappella ][sung text not still checked]

This text (or a function of information technology) is used in a piece of work

by Kate Soper (b. 1943), "And so dawn chromatically descends to twenty-four hour period", 2018 [ vox and piano ], confirmed with a concert program booklet

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Ambassador]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: eight
Word count: 40