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Happy Birthday, Ella Wheeler Wilcox! | Poems Rethabile Likes 🎂 Happy Birthday, Ella Wheeler Wilcox! Poet • Novelist • Journalist • born 5 November 1850 Today we celebrate the birthday of Ella Wheeler Wilcox — an American poet, novelist, and journalist whose accessible, rhyming verse reached a large readership during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Often associated with optimism and emotional directness, she published collections including Poems of Passion (1883), Poems of Pleasure (1888), and Poems of Peace (1906). Her Poems of Passion initially met publishers' resistance because its acknowledgement of women's passions was considered improper — once published, it sold 60,000 copies in two years. Here is her "Bleak Weather," a bright, defiant love poem: let the snow...