 "New Hampshire" also included Frost's poems "Fire and Ice" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".The poem lapsed into public domain in 2019.Alfred R. Ferguson wrote of the poem, "Perhaps no single poem more fully embodies the ambiguous balance between paradisiac good and the paradoxically more fruitful human good than 'Nothing Gold Can Stay,' a poem in which the metaphors of Eden and the Fall cohere with the idea of felix culpa."