• The Ideal, a poem by Charles Baudelaire (Not all the beauties in old prints vignetted)
• The Ideal, a poem by Anne Lynch Botta (A sad, sweet dream; it fell upon my soul)
• The Ideal, a poem by Florence Earle Coates (Something I may not win attracts me ever)
• Ideal, a poem by James Elroy Flecker
• Ideal, a play by Ayn Rand

See also:

• Ideals, a poem by Winifred Webb