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The drain of disillusionment - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"

The blunt, still disillusioning world - Cyrus Cassells "Clarinet"

Disillusioned roofs with teeth of rust - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"

The sea of disillusion that lies beyond the gate - Rennell Rodd "Disillusion"


Of all bright illusions and dark delusions - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

The offspring of reality and illusion - Mary Jo Bang "The Game of Roles"

The broidered hue of illusion - Mary Jo Bang "The Medicinal Cotton Clouds Come Down to Cover Them"

Now disavowed of illusions - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

Will later make the illusion seem cruel - Mary Jo Bang "The Trip"

Where a dream is no illusion - Lou Barrett "Kore"

every flame that brightened the illusion - Elizabeth Bartlett "life I love"

The ichor spilling from this illusion - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

Lost in Fame's or Wealth's illusion - Charlotte Bronte "Evening Solace"

Vasts and verges of illusion - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "Spring Song"

A birthmark with visions to see past illusions - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"

So thankful for illusion - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

As though illusion were not dead - Coningsby Dawson "A Brave Life"

With shards of broken illusions - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Under the Cypresses"

Time is not an illusion - Tongo Eisen-Martin "I Do Not Know the Spelling of Money"

A harlequin of illusions - John Gould Fletcher "A Pedlar"

The smell of too many illusions - Louise Gluck "Sunrise"

Requiring giant infusions of illusion - Tony Hoagland "Ten Questions for the New Age"

Lived here in vain illusion - "II: Xopancuicatl, Otoncuicatl, Tlamelauhcayotl | A Spring Song, an Otomi Song, a Plain Song" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Engineered to navigate an illusion of deep water - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"

Illusions beating with their baffled wings - Amy Lowell "Frankincense and Myrrh"

An illusion is truth untouched of pain - Shannan Mann "In Hell"

Lay my dead illusions there - Louis J. McQuilland "The Digger"

Used to cast old tales and illusions - W.S. Merwin "The Chinese Mountain Fox"

The illusions want more - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"

Corrupted by their own illusions - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"

The nest of modified illusions - Marianne Moore "England"

To burn for you all my illusions - Miguel Murphy "Demon and the Dove"

Doesn't count illusions - Pablo Neruda "Time that Wasn't Lost" transl. by William O'Daly

Where my illusions grow - Linda Pastan "In the Walled Garden"

That shadow land of lost illusions - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Laying of Ghosts"

The crash of her illusion - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Eros Turannos"

Comes fraught with strange illusions - Ann K. Schwader "Frost Ghosts"

Whose illusions were bearable - Tom Sleigh "Blueprint"

Golden stem of roses of illusion - Clark Ashton Smith "To the Beloved"

Abandon your nibbling illusions - Elizabeth Spires "Bloated Haiku"

Honey from illusion's stinging hive - George Sterling "A Character"

Construct a scene around an illusion - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"

Agree to burrow deep into this illusion - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"

Resonate with illusion - Edwin Torres "Ellabyrinth"

An illusion of fortress strength - John Updike "The Hedge"

Every illusion of separateness - Jean Valentine "Margaret, d. 1985"

In the fond illusion of my heart - William Wordsworth "Lines Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont"

Opens another form of illusion - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"

The illusions and disappointments of a clear sky - Zheng Min "Existence that no longer Exists #1: Van Gogh's Pleasure Boat is Gone" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


Illusionist of my puppet theatre - Magda Portal "Film Vermouth: Six O'Clock Show" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver


Conceived as illusory - Rae Armantrout "Bonding"

With lovers in illusory castles - Merdan Ehet'Eli "Common Night" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

A kind of gorgeous illusory play - David St. John "Beeches"


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