Phoebe Cary Quotes


Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!


Citations

Cary, Phoebe. "Keep a Stiff Upper Lip." Poems and Parodies, Ticknor and Fields, 1854, p. 78.

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Phoebe Cary
Phoebe Cary
  • Born: September 4, 1824
  • Died: July 31, 1871
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Poet

Phoebe Cary was an American poet, and the younger sister of poet Alice Cary (1820–1871). The sisters co-published poems in 1849, and then each went on to publish volumes of their own. After their deaths in 1871, joint anthologies of the sisters' unpublished poems were also compiled.