The poem describes how nature's beauty is fleeting and cannot last forever. It notes that while spring brings green leaves that seem as vibrant as gold, their brightness fades quickly. Just as Eden was lost and day follows dawn, all things beautiful in nature and life are transient - nothing gold can stay. The poem has an ABABBCB rhyme scheme and conveys that what is lovely cannot endure.
The poem describes how nature's beauty is fleeting and cannot last forever. It notes that while spring brings green leaves that seem as vibrant as gold, their brightness fades quickly. Just as Eden was lost and day follows dawn, all things beautiful in nature and life are transient - nothing gold can stay. The poem has an ABABBCB rhyme scheme and conveys that what is lovely cannot endure.
The poem describes how nature's beauty is fleeting and cannot last forever. It notes that while spring brings green leaves that seem as vibrant as gold, their brightness fades quickly. Just as Eden was lost and day follows dawn, all things beautiful in nature and life are transient - nothing gold can stay. The poem has an ABABBCB rhyme scheme and conveys that what is lovely cannot endure.
The poem describes how nature's beauty is fleeting and cannot last forever. It notes that while spring brings green leaves that seem as vibrant as gold, their brightness fades quickly. Just as Eden was lost and day follows dawn, all things beautiful in nature and life are transient - nothing gold can stay. The poem has an ABABBCB rhyme scheme and conveys that what is lovely cannot endure.
Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leafs 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.