Read full poem →When Kings, Queens, Knaves, are set in decent rank;
Exposed in glorious heaps the tempting bank,
Guineas, half-guineas, all the shining train;
Dictionary Entry
A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. heapsupon heapsheaps greatheaps littleheaps rubbishheaps slag
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Poetry examples for “heaps”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The pierced battalions disunited fall
In heaps on heaps; one fate o'erwhelms them all.
Read full poem →Thy mother shall from heaven applaud this show,
And on their faces heaps of roses strow, 40
With beauty of thy wings, thy fair hair gilded,[137]
Read full poem →Bones white with a thousand frosts,
High heaps, covered with trees and grass;
Who brought this to pass?
Read full poem →There is no sound of foot-fall, and the leaves
Scurry into heaps and lie still,
And she the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them:
Read full poem →And in the morning, when the tempest drops,
At every cottage door mountainous heaps
Of snow lie drifted, that all entrance stops
Read full poem →Smarting and sweating ’neath the sultry day,
With muttering curses stung, he mauls the heaps away.
Read full poem →where with innumerable swarms, the houses seemed to be converted
into heaps of men, and women, and children, for whose diversion
there were provided great variety of excellent fireworks.
Read full poem →And bring their works triumphantly to light,
Neglected heaps we in bye-corners lay,
Where they become to worms and moths a prey.
Read full poem →Amidst whole heaps of spices lights a ball, -
And now their odours arm’d against them fly: