With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'Morality'.

We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final stage of affluent miseryöa crocus on a garbage heap.

-Gardner,JohnWilliam
  In the NewYork Times, 9 Oct.

Our style should be as a skein of silk, to be carried and found by the right thread, not ravelled and perplexed; then all is a knot, a heap.

-Jonson, Ben
Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

Heap high the groaning platter with pink fillets, sucking pig and thick gammon, celestial chef. Be generous with the crackling. Let your hand slip with the gravy trough, dispensing plenty.

-MacBeth, George Mann
  'An Ode to English Food'.

'Tis not, what once it was, the world; But a rude heap together hurl'd.

-Marvell, Andrew
c.1650^1652  'Upon  Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax' (published1681), stanza 96.