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Phoebe Cary Biography

Phoebe Cary (September 4, 1824 – July 31, 1871) 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 her own. After their deaths in 1871, joint anthologies of the sisters' unpublished poems were also compiled.

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Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light.

Added, Blind, Bridal Shower, Light, Reading, True

I think true love is never blind,
But rather brings an added light;
An inner vision quick to find
The beauties hid from common sight.

Common, Hid, Inner, Light, Love Is, Thinking

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

Courage, Fighting, Give, Giving Up, Lip, Ship

But alas for the dreams that round us play!
For the plans of mortal making!
And alas for the false and fickle day
That looked so fair at waking!

Disappointment, Dream, Looked, Mortal, Play

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.

Home, Solemn, Sweetly, Today

Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing Life's inequalities, and woe, and care, The burdens laid upon our mortal being Seem heavier than the human heart can bear.

Bear, Care, Heart, Heavier, Mortal, Woe

I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head.

Flower, Maid, Pansy, Purple, Rose, Shows

Books were put out, and 'had a run,'
Like coinage from the mint;
But which could fill the place of one,
That one they wouldn't print?

Book, Books, Coinage, Print, Rejection, Running

And though hard be the task, keep a stiff upper lip.

Hard, Lips, Military, Stiff, Tasks, Though

For those roses bright, oh, those roses bright! I have twined them in my sister's locks That are hid in the dust from sight.

Dust, Locks, Rose, Sight, Twined

Father, perfect my trust;Let my spirit feel in death,That her feet are firmly setOn the rock of a living faith!

Father, Feet, Firmly, Living, Rocks

Come up, April, though the valley,
In your robes of beauty drest,
Come and wake your flowery children
From their wintry beds of rest.

Bed, Beds, Children, Rest, Valley, Valleys

O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.

Children, Heart, Men, Years

Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure them homage.

Angel, Angels, Beautiful, Consequently, Women, Youth

For of all hard things to bear and grin,
The hardest is knowing you're taken in.

Deception, Grin, Hardest, Knowing, Taken

All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today

Blessing, Blessings, Life, Thoughts, Today

O that one unguarded moment!
Were it mine to live again,
All the strength of its temptation
Would appeal to me in vain.

Live, Moments, Regret, Strength, Temptation, Unguarded