Frances Laughton Mace (née Frances Parker Laughton; pen name: Inez; January 15, 1836 – July 20, 1899) was an American poet. Her poems first appeared in The Journal of Commerce. She was best remembered for the poem and hymn "Only Waiting", written when she was 18, and published in the Waterville Mail. Its authorship, for a time, was confused. The work was included in her volume Legends, Lyrics, and Sonnets (Boston, 1883). Her later work was included in Under Pine and Palm (1888) and Wild Roses of Maine (1896). Mace died in 1899.