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
life strong sweet
Life hurries pasttoo strong to stop;too sweet to loose.
earth kinds lift people
The two kinds of people on earth that I meanAre the people who lift and the people who lean.
lies life unfinished work
Think your life was made for dreaming, nothing more,When God's work lies all unfinished at your door?
helps man succeed
Succeed and give, and it helps you live,But no man can help you die.
borrow earth laugh laughs sad trouble weep
Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own
dumb earth sins though
God! though all other sins on earth persist,Strike dumb the blatant, loud-mouthed atheist.
gifts lies pleasure taking
For here lies the pleasure of living:In taking God's bounties, and givingThe gifts back again.
breaks earth endless goes heart learns life rise sad sun
This is the way of it, sad earth over,The heart that breaks is the heart of the lover,And the other learns to forget.For what is the use of endless sorrow?Though the sun goes down, it will rise to-morrow;And life is not over yet.
gate goes golden heart memory walks
Back on its golden hingesThe gate of Memory swings,And my heart goes into the gardenAnd walks with the olden things.
glad heart others passed safely trip understand
And I am glad my heart can say,When others trip and fall(Although I safely passed that way),""I understand it all.
breaks fear heart sworn twin
Fear is the twin of Faith's sworn foe, Distrust.If one breaks in your heart the other must.
brief hundred known lived men passion
So young, and yet I have had all of life.Why, men have lived to see a hundred years,Who have not known the rapture, joy, and strifeOf my brief youth, its passion and its tears.
labor side
Here, on this side of the grave,Here, should we labor and love.
learn men
Live to learn, and learn to liveIf you want to give men knowledgeYou must get, ere you give.