Tag Archives: "Nothing Gold Can Stay"

Thinned Back to Bare Wood

By Robin Bates | Published: October 22, 2022

Hirshfield’s beautiful poem about autumn compares a stripped trees to a revered icon.

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What To Make of a Diminished Biles

By Robin Bates | Published: August 6, 2021

For Simone Biles’s fall from Olympic heights, two Robert Frost poems and Le Guin’s Earthsea Tetralogy bring some needed perspective.

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A Light Exists in Spring

By Robin Bates | Published: March 20, 2019

Thursday – First Day of Spring I’ll let Emily Dickinson usher in the new season with “A Light exists in Spring.” I like how the poet describes this time of year as elusive, a sentiment found in a number of other magnificent spring poems, including A. E. Housman’s “Loveliest of Trees” and Robert Frost’s “Nothing […]

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