Read full poem →But on Montorio's height, looking forth to the vapoury mountains,
Cheating the prisoner Hope with illusions of vision and fancy,--
But on Montorio's height, with these weary soldiers by me,
Dictionary Entry
Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
In a Sentence
“Using artificial additives, scientists can create the illusion of fruit flavours in food.”
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Common Phrases
. illusionsillusions anyillusions optical
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Poetry examples for “illusions”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →delayed. It is the limbo of "planetary souls," wherein are all moonlight
uncertainties, all lost loves and illusions. Here some are fixed in trance,
the only respite attainable; others
Read full poem →A finer thing than any verse he wrote?
(Oh beautiful illusions of our youth!)
He did not see me gladly. Talked of treason
Read full poem →Of a child who knows himself and is alone with what he knows;
There were pensioners of dreams and there were debtors of illusions,
All to fail before the triumph of a weed that only grows.
Read full poem →Thou'st heard the knave supply his canting powers
With wrong's illusions when he wanted friends;
That bawled for shelter when he lived in showers
Read full poem →To you, the haven of my lonely pride:
But I am sworn to murder those illusions
That blossom from desire with desperate beauty: