Beautiful as sweet,

And young as beautiful, and soft as young,

And gay as soft, and innocent as gay!

Edward Young (1684-1765): Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 81.

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men

May read strange matters. To beguile the time,

Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,

Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,

But be the serpent under 't.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 5.

Stone walls do not a prison make,

Nor iron bars a cage;

Minds innocent and quiet take

That for an hermitage;

If I have freedom in my love,

And in my soul am free,

Angels alone that soar above

Enjoy such liberty.

Richard Lovelace (1618-1658): To Althea from Prison, iv.

The big round tears

Coursed one another down his innocent nose

In piteous chase.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,

Till thou applaud the deed.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 2.

I have mark'd

A thousand blushing apparitions

To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames

In angel whiteness beat away those blushes.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Officious, innocent, sincere,

Of every friendless name the friend.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): Verses on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet. Stanza 2.

Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more!

Macbeth does murder sleep!" the innocent sleep,

Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,

The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,

Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,

Chief nourisher in life's feast.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free;

Patient of toil, serene amidst alarms;

Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.

James Beattie (1735-1803): The Minstrel. Book i. Stanza 11.

He's armed without that's innocent within.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle i. Book i. Line 94.