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". A few of the poems in this collection include An Old Heart, Warp and Woof, So Long, If I could only weep, Why should we sigh, A wakeful night, If one should dive deep, Two, No comfort, It does not matter, The under-tone, Worth living, More fortunate, and He will not come.