Clergyman's

A Song for September, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. .
- Thomas William Parsons

On a Bust of Dante, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. .
- Thomas William Parsons

No dream his life was—but a fight!
Could any Beatrice see
A lover in that anchorite?
- Thomas William Parsons

Sorrow and scarlet leaf,
Sad thoughts and sunny weather:
Ah me, this glory and this grief
Agree not well together!
- Thomas William Parsons

O Time! whose verdicts mock our own,
The only righteous judge art thou!
- Thomas William Parsons