No excuse needed for re-posting this seasonal gem.
The Judas trees are being true to the third line of the poem and showing their little pink blossom flowers already.
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
[The American poet much loved by my American wife, Meredith.]
I enjoy the pictures which accompany your good text. Two of the most recent, of the green/gold fields and the cricket players, feed my curiosity as to where they were photographed. Any attribution possible? Thank you.
I love the landscape, and Frost is one of my favorites too. He used nature to say so much. Beautiful!
Beautiful! Happy Easter!
My favorite Robert Frost poem, thank you for sharing it’s beauty..so evocative of Spring.
Beautiful words and even more beautiful pictures. Hope you have a Happy Easter!
What a beautiful picture to match beautiful words.
Happy Easter.
Thanks, Elaine–you too.
I’ll bet Meredith loves Frost’s “Fire and Ice,” too. The older I get, the more it makes me smile.
Joy, you’re right! It one of several I have memorized.
–Meredith
WOW, it’s so green over there!!!
I love Robert Frost, too–of course I would, living in New England! His farm is about an hour from us in Derry. A few years ago, they lost one of the big trees there & were debating what to do with the wood from it ‘cuz it was so special. (Tree at my Window, perhaps??) Not sure how it turned out.
“Birches” is a favorite, but there’s also an ilustrated children’s book of “While Stopping by the Woods…” that is just LOVELY! (artist Susan Jeffers, 1978) I use it in school, but keep it for me! 😉 Scholastic books also put out a good collection of his poems for children with very nice watercolor illustrations.
Happy Easter to you both!
Cheers & hugs!
Bonne Fete to you too, Dianne. It must be lovely in NH at the moment–or about to be.
Robin, I’m not familiar with Frost… but I noticed one of the posts above mentions “Fire and Ice”. An avid reader of Stephanie Meyer, I noticed it features at the beginning of her book Eclipse. I had not heard of his work before that. Love the above though. Where we are the snow is gone thankfully, and outside it’s a balmy 12 degrees c! It’ll be the mozzies next! Happy Easter to you and to Meredith!
A joyous Easter Sunday to you and Meredith. Although I do appreciate Robert Frost, my favorite poet, especially on the subject of spring, is e. e. cummings: “inJust-,” “in time of daffodils,” “i thank you God” are just a few.
A great resource: http://famouspoetsandpoems.com
Hi Nancy,
I’m with you about e e cummings too!
“Since feeling is first…”
–Meredith