Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Poems of Optimism Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850ù1919) was an American author and poet. She is known for writing Poems of Passion. Her most remembered poem was "Solitude", which contains the lines: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone". A few of the poems in this collection are Greater Britain, Belgium. Knitting, Mobilisation, Neutral, A book for the King, The men-made gods, The Winds of Fate, Beauty, The invisible helpers, and To the women of Australia.