Funeral blues одно из самых известных стихотворений У. И. Одена. Ранняя версия была опубликована в 1936 году, но стихотворение в его окончательной, знакомой форме было впервые опубликовано в 1938 в сборнике The Year's Poetry. Funeral blues
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone.
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling in the sky the message He is Dead,
Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;