Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Born
in Johnstown, Wisconsin, The United States
November 05, 1850

Died
October 30, 1919

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet.

Her best-known work was "Poems of Passion". Her most enduring work was the poem "Solitude", which contains the lines:

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone".

Her autobiography, "The Worlds and I", was published in 1918, a year before her death.
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Average rating: 4.03 · 3,283 ratings · 378 reviews · 422 distinct worksSimilar authors
Poems of Passion

4.20 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 1883 — 335 editions
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The Heart of the New Thought

3.97 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1942 — 310 editions
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Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

4.37 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2003 — 48 editions
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Solitude

4.50 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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Poems of Power

4.14 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1905 — 173 editions
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Poems of Optimism

4.06 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1919 — 312 editions
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Poems of Pleasure

3.94 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1888 — 84 editions
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Maurine and Other Poems

4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2015 — 116 editions
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Whatever is, is best: A col...

4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1975 — 5 editions
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Poems of Purpose

4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1916 — 308 editions
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“Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“A weed is but an unloved flower.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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