Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Poems of Cheer: Laugh and the World Laughs with You. Weep and Weep Alone

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Poems of Cheer: Laugh and the World Laughs with You. Weep and Weep Alone
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Portable Poetry
Published
16 December 2013
Pages
72
ISBN
9781783945818

Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s Poems of Cheer: Laugh and the World Laughs with You. Weep and Weep Alone

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Born on November 5th 1850 in Johnstown, Wisconsin, Ella Wheeler was the youngest of four children. She began to write as a child and by the time she graduated was already well known as a poet throughout Wisconsin. Regarded more as a popular poet than a literary poet her most famous work ‘Solitude’ reflects on a train journey she made where giving comfort to a distressed fellow traveller she wrote how the others grief imposed itself for a time on her ‘Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone’. It was published in 1883 and was immensely popular. The following year, 1884, she married Robert Wilcox. They lived for a time in New York before moving to Connecticut. Their only child, a son, died shortly after birth. Here we publish one of her many poetry books, Poems Of Cheer, that so endeared her to her audience. Ella died of breast cancer on October 30th, 1919.

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