Poems of Passion

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Poems of Passion is a collection of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox that was published in 1883. [1]

Ella Wheeler Wilcox American author and poet

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her works include Poems of Passion and 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.

Despite the fact that the book's title "threatened to spark a scandal," eventually it "was embraced by thousands of perfectly respectable midwestern readers." [2]

Contents

Poems of Passion contains the following poems:

Miscellaneous poems:

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References

  1. Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1890). Poems of passion. Chicago: Belford-Clarke Co. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
  2. Sorby, Angela. "The Milwaukee School of Fleshly Poetry: Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Poems of Passion and Popular Aestheticism". Legacy, A Journal of American Women Writers. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
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