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Four Weddings Funeral Poem



Welcome to the Four Weddings Funeral Poem "Funeral Blues" by W H Auden. Please accept our sincere condolences on your bereavement. This free religious, inspirational funeral poem can be read at the funeral as part of a speech, tribute, eulogy or reading or can be included in the Order of Service or Program or used in a Greeting Card There are many poems in the other sections which might be equally suitable to you. We suggest you browse all the family sections...all poems are free, our gift to you










Funeral Blues- Made popular by the movie, “Four Weddings and a Funeral”



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 on the sky the message
He is Dead.
Put crepe 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;
I thought that love would last forever:
I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

W.H. Auden

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