Read full poem →Or seek some ruin's formidable shade:
While fancy brings the vanish'd piles to view.
And builds imaginary Rome anew.
Dictionary Entry
A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. pilespiles twopiles concretepiles great
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Poetry examples for “piles”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →If sacrifices and the fat of lambs,
And whole burnt-offerings upon piles of turf,
Will bring me this, I’d fill the heaven with smoke,
Read full poem →If I could hear the green piles groaning
Under the windy wooden piers,
Read full poem →playing on the wide shore,
piles little ridges,
and the great waves
Read full poem →Brought them to the river's margin,
Heaped them in great piles together,
Where the red rocks from the margin
Read full poem →Brought them to the river’s margin,
Heaped them in great piles together,
Where the red rocks from the margin
Read full poem →And others hurried to and fro, and fed
Their funeral piles with fuel, and looked up
With mad disquietude on the dull sky,
Read full poem →And others hurried to and fro, and fed
Their funeral piles with fuel, and looked up
With mad disquietude on the dull sky,
Read full poem →We have thus fallen, save that Luxury
With barren merchandise piles up the gate
Where noble thoughts and deeds should enter by:
Read full poem →Then Parson Brown an' Lawyer Jones were present--all attention,
An' piles on piles of other folks too numerous to mention.
The master rose an' briefly said: "Good friends, dear brother Crawford,