So, we'll go no more a roving the latter part of it, and sitting up late o' nights--had knocked me up a little. But it is over--and it is now Lent, with all its abstinence and sacred music... Though I did not dissipate much upon the whole, yet I find 'the sword wearing out the scabbard,' though I have but just turned the corner of twenty nine." The poem seems to have been suggested in part by the refrain of a Scottish song known as "The Jolly Beggar." The Jolly Beggar was published in Herd's "Scots Songs" in 1776, 41 years before Byron's letter, and goes partially
Nothing Gold Can Stay (poem) moon it shall stray/So dawn goes down today/No gold can stay/No gold can stay." 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". Alfred R. Ferguson wrote of the poem, "Perhaps no single poem more fully embodies the ambiguous balance between