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Morn builds the heap which eve destroys - Hatim al-Tai "On Avarice" transl. by Joseph Dacre Carlyle

Where poppies heap the marble vats - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

Stretched on a heap of poisoned arrows - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"

Heap wood upon the fire to banish shadow - John Berryman "The Possessed"

Heaps of rare drifted salvage - Louise Morey Bowman "Oranges"

Unhinged rhizomes heap - Serena Chopra "Garden Variety with Lesbians"

A pushcart heaped beyond possibility - John Ciardi "Abundance"

and honey was heaped upon my head - Lucille Clifton "beloved"

Coffers heaped with tears - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XI: Compensation"

A lifetime's heap of laundry - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Only a heap of broken images - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land I: The Burial of the Dead"

Heap his bed with balsam boughs - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Streets of heaped glass - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Lost Coast"

Among the jumbled heap of murky buildings - John Keats "Sonnet VII [O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell]"

Heaping upon themselves more deep damnation - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Huddles in grey heaps coiling and holding back - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"

Sitting on a heap of barley - Edward Lear "Incidents in the Live of My Uncle Arly"

An ignoble heap of broken, dusty glass - Amy Lowell "A Fairy Tale"

Keeps adjusting the ash heaps - Marianne Moore "The Fish"

A frail and dusty heap of regret - John Murillo "Dolores, Maybe"

A scorpion scratches about under a rubbish heap - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"

A heap of fragrant ashes - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "A Precious Urn"

Heaped high by blinded Stars - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"

A heap of dust alone remains - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

Tumbling and heaping about the door - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"

Gathered great heaps of fraying asbestos - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"

High heaped above the hunting grounds - "The Red Man's Plea: Almost Literally the Reply of 'Red Iron to Governor Ramsey" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]

And heaped their glories at your feet - D.J. Robertson "Parted" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.144-v.III, 2 Oct. 1886]

Aware of silence heaped round him - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"

Heaped with snow that shall know no thawing - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Bronze shadows heaped on high horizons - Wallace Stevens "The Idea of Order at Key West"

By amassing a heap of glass - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 40: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The dust heap where our memories lie - Iris Tree "Streets"

Heaped together with balsam and juniper - Elinor Wylie "Winter Sleep"


From dust-heaps garnered - Zinaida Gippius "[I seek for rhythmic whisperings]" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky


Heaped-up sods upon the fire - Padraic Colum "An Old Woman of the Roads"


A mighty junk-heap rising high - Adolf Wolff "The Great Discard"


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