Poems of Cheer Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox 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". Selections in Poems of Cheer include Worth while -- The House of Life -- A Song of Life Prayer -- In ... more »the Long Run -- As you go through Life -- Two Sunsets Unrest -- Artist's life -- Nothing but Stones Inevitable -- The Ocean of Song -- "It might have been" -- Momus, God of La« less