Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) 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". Poems in this delightful little book include Preface--the Queen's last ride, The Englishman, Canada, The Call, Coronation Poem and Prayer, Two Voices, A Ballade of the Unborn Dead, The Truth Teller, Just You, Reflection, Songs of Love and the Sea, Acquaintance, In India's Dreamy Land, Rangoon, Thoughts on leaving Japan, On seeing the Diabutsu--at Kamakura, Japan, The Little Lady of the Bullock Cart, East and West, The Squanderer, Compensations, Song of the Rail, Always at Sea, The Suitors, The Jealous Gods, God Rules Always, The Cure, The Forecast, Little Girls, Science, The Earth, The Muse and the Poet, The Spinster, Brotherhood, The Tavern of Last Times, The Two Ages, and more.