Phoebe Cary neves amerikai költő, a pacifista és a nők jogaiért küzdő mozgalmak harcosa volt.
“And though hard be the task,
"Keep a stiff upper lip."”
Keep a stiff upper Lip, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 596.
The Wife, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). The second stanza is also found in James Aldrich, A death-bed.
