This week‘s poem is: ‘Solitude’ by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Ella started writing poems at an early age. She studied at the University of Wisconsin but left after a year to focus on her writing. She became well known as a poet in her own state by the time she had graduated from high school. She was a popular poetess compared to her counterparts; in her poems, she expresses feelings of joyfulness and optimism.
Solitude By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air;
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go;
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all,
There is none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.
Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by.
Succeed and give, and it helps you live,
But no man can help you die.
There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a large and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain.
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