Thomas William Parsons

Thomas William Parsons (August 18, 1819 – September 3, 1892) was an American dentist and poet.

Quotes

• Sorrow and scarlet leaf,
  Sad thoughts and sunny weather:
  Ah me, this glory and this grief
  Agree not well together!
• A Song for September, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• No dream his life was—but a fight!
  Could any Beatrice see
  A lover in that anchorite?
• On a Bust of Dante, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• O Time! whose verdicts mock our own,
  The only righteous judge art thou!
• On a Bust of Dante, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).