Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Poems Of Cheer: "laugh and the world laughs with you. weep and weep alone"

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783945818
• ISBN13: 9781783945818
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Portable Poetry
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"