Hivemind: recommend public domain or free culture licensed poetry/short prose with a theme of "gold", please? It's for a thing.
@hollyamory Sadly not yet public domain (d. 1963)
@artsyhonker
Oops, sorry.
@hollyamory not your fault copyright law is horrendously counter-intuitive and unfit for purpose ;-)
@artsyhonker
There's always my favorite, Robert Frost. https://m.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/nothing-gold-can-stay