Ella Wilcox
Ella Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcoxwas an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "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...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth5 November 1850
pass square task whatever
Whatever the task that comes your way,Just take it as part of your luck.Look it right square in the eyes, and say,""This is MY task, I'll do it to-day"":Don't pass the buck.
cowards men sin
To sin by silence, when we should protest,Makes cowards out of men.
dark endless joy leads light today
The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ...and yet no endless sorrow.
creative force great majesty might universe
When the great universe was wroughtTo might and majesty from naught,The all creative force was -THOUGHT.