The Jolly Beggar The Jolly Beggar The Jolly Beggar also known as The Gaberlunzieman is Child ballad 279. The song's chorus inspired lines in Lord Byron's poem "So, we'll go no more a roving." A beggar comes over the hills one day, and knocks on the door of a local farmer and asks for a roof for the night. Curiously, he will not accept a bed in the barn, but wishes only to sleep by the kitchen fire. Late at night, the farmer's daughter comes down to lock the kitchen door. The beggar and daughter exchange words, and fall in love. They sleep
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