Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
(November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1919).
American author and poet. Her works include the collection Poems of Passion and the poem “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.
I will cast my August days behind me with my May, nor strive to drag them into autumn’s place, nor swear I hope when I do but remember. Now violet and rose have had their day. I’ll pluck the soberer asters with good grace and call September nothing but September.
