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.

From The Poetry of Robert Frost edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1923, 1947, 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, copyright © 1942, 1951 by Robert Frost, copyright © 1970, 1975 by Lesley Frost Ballantine. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.

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Poems by This Author

"Out, Out—" by Robert Frost The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard A Line-storm Song by Robert Frost The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost I have been one acquainted with the night After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree An Old Man's Winter Night by Robert Frost All out-of-doors looked darkly in at him Birches by Robert Frost When I see birches bend to left and right Blueberries by Robert Frost You ought to have seen what I saw on my way Bond and Free by Robert Frost Love has earth to which she clings Carpe Diem by Robert Frost Age saw two quiet children Christmas Trees by Robert Frost The city had withdrawn into itself Design by Robert Frost I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, Directive by Robert Frost Back out of all this now too much for us Dust of Snow by Robert Frost The way a crow Fire and Ice by Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire For Once, Then, Something by Robert Frost Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs Ghost House by Robert Frost I dwell in a lonely house I know Going for Water by Robert Frost The well was dry beside the door Home Burial by Robert Frost He saw her from the bottom of the stairs Meeting and Passing by Robert Frost As I went down the hill along the wall Mending Wall by Robert Frost Something there is that doesn't love a wall, Mowing by Robert Frost There was never a sound beside the wood but one October by Robert Frost O hushed October morning mild Reluctance by Robert Frost Out through the fields and the woods Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know The Death of the Hired Man by Robert Frost Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table The Oven-Bird by Robert Frost There is a singer everyone has heard The Pasture by Robert Frost I'm going out to clean the pasture spring The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood The Sound of the Trees by Robert Frost I wonder about the trees To Earthward by Robert Frost Love at the lips was touch

Further Reading

Poems about Trees A Poison Tree by William Blake Abandonment Under the Walnut Tree by D. A. Powell An Apple Gathering by Christina Rossetti Arbolé, Arbolé . . . by Federico García Lorca Before the Snake by Nathaniel Tarn Birch by Cynthia Zarin Birches by Robert Frost Christmas Trees by Robert Frost Gather by Rose McLarney Get Used To It by Margaret Young Goddess of Maple at Evening by Chard deNiord Hard Night by Christian Wiman How From Politeness to the Trees by Cecily Parks How to Uproot a Tree by Jennifer K. Sweeney If You Go into the Woods You Will Find It Has a Technology by Heather Christle In California During the Gulf War by Denise Levertov Leaves by Lloyd Schwartz Letter from Town: The Almond Tree by D. H. Lawrence Loveliest of Trees by A. E. Housman Man in Stream by Rosanna Warren My Friend Tree by Lorine Niedecker My Lady Is Compared to a Young Tree by Vachel Lindsay Not Dead by Robert Graves Orpheus by William Shakespeare Pear Tree by H. D. Russian Birch by Nathaniel Bellows Solstice by Ellen Dudley Song of the Trees by Mary Colborne-Veel The Apple Trees at Olema by Robert Hass The Branches by Jean Valentine The Heart of the Tree by Henry Cuyler Bunner The Lemon Trees by Eugenio Montale The Life of Trees by Dorianne Laux The Mahogany Tree by William Makepeace Thackeray The Planting of the Apple-Tree by William Cullen Bryant The Poplar by Richard Aldington The Sound of the Trees by Robert Frost The Testing-Tree by Stanley Kunitz The Weight by Linda Gregg The Wishing Tree by Kathleen Jamie This Lime Tree Bower My Prison by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Trees by Joyce Kilmer Trees in the Garden by D. H. Lawrence Trees Need Not Walk the Earth by David Rosenthal Vertical by Linda Pastan What Happened at the Service? by Prageeta Sharma When Autumn Came by Faiz Ahmed Faiz White Trees by Nathalie Handal Willow by Jane Shore Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams