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Water boiled in innocence - Maya Angelou "To Beat the Child Was Bad Enough"

Your innocence costs too much - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

The innocence of thorns - Elizabeth Bartlett "Instinct and Reason"

Innocence learned a lot from experience - Paul Cameron Brown "What Became of the Sixties"

Covering us in our first innocence - Felix Cortes "In the Beginning There was the Light"

My lungs empty of the innocence that was - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"

That guile be easier than innocence - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

And laugh in innocence of sorcery - Max Eastman "To the Ascending Moon"

The hazards of playing at innocence - Tony Hoagland "Ten Questions for the New Age"

and all my claims of innocence are false - Joseph Lease "Falling"

The naked singularity of innocence destroyed - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"

Our bodies small gifts of innocence - Nome Emeka Patrick "Naked"

Lesson as clear as their aura of innocence - Brad Peacock "A Morning in Thailand"

The burnt-out dream of innocence - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

The pearly choker of innocence around my throat - Adrienne Rich "Grating"

The larger innocence of air - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Statured to a savage innocence - Lola Ridge "Shadow"

A shattered innocence consoled by venom - Ann K. Schwader "Medusa, Becoming"

The unrestrained innocence of your intentions - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"

Carried on the inhalation of ill-preparation and innocence - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Looked Janus-faced to innocence and guilt - William Wetmore Story "A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem"

In terms of interrupted innocence - John Updike "The Witnesses"

Expensive innocence - Suzanne Vega "Fool's Complaint"

Where innocent water thought aloud - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Innocent souls turned carrion birds - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

The guilty land is washed in innocent blood - S.J. Bates "The Sacrifice" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

Idyll built of innocent words - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

Pays for his crumbs with an innocent song - Jacky Dandy "Jacky Dandy's Delight"

Immune to time and innocent of pain - Boris Dralyuk "The Minor Masters"

Hollow skulls of the innocent dead - Cheryl Dumesnil "The Heart Has Four Chambers"

Their thorns are their innocent protection - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"

Not even human dreams are innocent - John Grey "Skywatching"

Hidden from the cop car sleeking innocently past - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"

Less innocent joys and hopes - Henry S. Leigh "Mother"

Like a light innocent of measure - W.S. Merwin "Note"

because carbon can never be innocent - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

Violets trail off in an innocent wind - Maggie Nelson "Sleepy Demise of the Season"

With sworn enemies and innocents - Achy Obejas "Volver"

Their panes of glass innocent - Diana O'Hehir "Riding the San Francisco Train"

The overflowings of an innocent heart - Samuel Rogers "Ginevra"

Innocent surprise at mortality's panache - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"

So innocent of woe - John Hall Wheelock "Long Ago"

The innocent gift of strangers - Jay Wright "Boli"

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