Read full poem →Is a foul and dark latrine,
And the fetid breath of living Death
Chokes up each grated screen,
Dictionary Entry
The foul-smelling asafoetida plant, or its extracts.
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odor fetidbreath fetid. fetidsmell fetidair fetidodour fetid
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Poetry examples for “fetid”
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Read full poem →Is a foul and dark latrine,
And the fetid breath of living Death
Chokes up each grated screen,
Read full poem →Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone
In fetid darkness still to live and run--
And all for nothing it had ever done
Read full poem →The same shape twisted on the banister
Under the vapour in the fetid air
Struggling with the devil of the stairs who wears
Read full poem →I waited unseen and always, and slept through the lethargic mist,
And took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon.