The words of American poet and author, Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 -- 1919) are widely known around the world, even by people that have never heard her name:
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
Weep, and you weep alone.
Those are the opening lines are from her most famous poem, Solitude, published in the February 25, 1883 issue of The New York Sun.
