![]() The place where swains & nymphs are said to shine There Cicely Jeard by day the slips of NellĪre these the Virtues which adorn the plain While Ned was drinking Hodge & William dead Or safe with shepheards lys among the bowrs Singing at ease she roves ye field of flowrs Where cooling streams salute ye summer Seats ![]() Yet this poem deserves inclusion here as it’s a fine poem about innocence, written in the heroic couplets the Augustans like Swift and Pope were so fond of, and it’s short enough to be quoted in full: However, Parnell is now no longer remembered or mentioned in the same breath as Swift or Pope. Parnell (1679-1718) was an Anglo-Irish poet who was a friend of both Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift he was a member of their famous Scriblerus club with them. Thomas Parnell, ‘Oft Have I Read That Innocence Retreats’. The speaker laments the death of his daughter, a ‘precious pearl without a spot’, an innocent child who, through baptism, can be saved: We begin this selection of classic poems about innocence with a long dream-vision poem from the fourteenth century, composed by an unknown poet (although probably the same person who wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight). However, poems about innocence can be found before the 1790s and the arrival of Romanticism into English poetry, so below we’ve ranged far and wide in English verse to collect some of the greatest poems about being innocence, about states of innocence, and related themes.Īnonymous, Pearl. ![]() Innocence is a theme that looms large in English poetry, especially since the age of Romanticism. ![]()
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