scoop-eyed

Updated: May 23, 2025

And there is a long procession of mourners, some of whom are both worthy and distinguished. In the interesting poem, God's Funeral, written in 1908-1910, which begins I saw a slowly stepping train Lined on the brows, scoop-eyed and bent and hoar Following in files across a twilit plain A strange and mystic form the foremost bore

William Lyon Phelps - The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century