Poems of Problems

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Genres: Poetry

180 pages, Hardcover

First published August 20, 2015

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Jen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I began reading this because I saw an excerpt of one of her poems and liked it. As it turns out, many of her poems are quite religious and it's a bit too overt for me. It's just not my cup of tea.