Read full poem →Here moss-grown trees expand the smallest leaf;
Here half an acre's corn is half a sheaf;[14]
Here hills with naked heads the tempest meet,
Dictionary Entry
A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. sheafcatalogue sheafsheaf lastsheaf thicksheaf firstsheaf wholesheaf wheat
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Poetry examples for “sheaf”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Bring all dead things and dying,
Reaped sheaf and ruined fruit,
Where, crushed by three days' pressure,
Read full poem →The year of the rose is brief;
From the first blade blown to the sheaf,
From the thin green leaf to the gold,
Read full poem →O'er water-daisies and wild waifs of Spring,
There where the iris rears its gold-crowned sheaf
With flowering rush and sceptred arrow-leaf,
Read full poem →different editors and publishers, but the present is the first occasion
on which all the pieces referred to have been garnered into one sheaf.
Besides the poems thus alluded to, this volume will be found to contain
Read full poem →The faint damp wind that, ere the even, blows
Piling the west with many a tawny sheaf,
Then when the last glad wavering hours are mown
Read full poem →Two arms embowed (position in picture) vested az (blue) holding be-
tween the hands ppr (proper color), a garb or (a sheaf of wheat gold.)
Read full poem →Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
Read full poem →Radiant, untroubled in his wisdom, kind.
His sheaf of lilies stirred not in the wind.
How should she, pitiful with mortality,