- “Illusions,” a letter by Edwin Abbott Abbott
- “Illusions,” a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Flow, flow the waves hated)
- “Illusions,” a prose piece by Ralph Waldo Emerson (“Some years ago, in company with an agreeable party, …”)
- “Illusion,” a poem by Richard Watson Gilder
- “Illusion,” a poem by Laurence Hope
- “Illusion,” a poem by Robert Ervin Howard
- “Illusion,” a poem by Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson (Oh! for the veils of my far-away youth)
- “Illusions,” a poem by Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson (Who hath not built his castles in the free and open air?)
- “Illusion,” a poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- “Illusion,” a poem by Adelaide Anne Procter