Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850u1919) 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. | Poems of Optimism by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Paperback | Indigo Chapters