Illusion
31 poems
Mirages, pretences, false hopes: poems about illusion and the awakening that follows. Read them on Loëly.
A dream within a dream
Edgar Allan Poe
Behind The Scenes: Empire
Arthur Symons
Crown 11
Mary Wroth
The Crown Sonnets
Crown Sonnet – False Hope
Mary Wroth
Dreams
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Dreams
Emma Lazarus
Earthly Pomp
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fata Morgana
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Home
Rupert Brooke
Illusion
George William Russel
May
Sara Teasdale
Mona Lisa
Edith Wharton
Nocturne
Countee Cullen
on a Horn
Jonathan Swift
On Death
John Keats
Pierrot in Half Mourning
Arthur Symons
Sonnet
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sonnet - Let Grief
Mary Wroth
Sonnet 114
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
Sonnet 119
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
Sonnet 15 - Love like a juggler
Mary Wroth
Sonnet 40 - It is not love which you poor fools do deem
Mary Wroth
Sonnet 6 - Sleep fie possess me not
Mary Wroth
Sonnet V
George Santayana
Stanzas In Meditation: Stanza I
Gertrude Stein
Still to be neat, still to be dressed
Ben Jonson
The Ancient Gods
Mary Webb
The Dream
Aphra Behn
The Eye
Khalil Gibran
The Reverie of Poor Susan
William Wordsworth
The Shadow on the Stone
Thomas Hardy