What follows is a listing of the appearance of recognizable, often canonical, poems, or excerpts from poems. The catalog is necessarily incomplete; readers are invited to submit new entries to the page at [email protected]. The filmography will be revised and updated regularly.
Addison, Joseph
"The Campaign"
My Darling Clementine, 1946
"L'amour"
Peau d'ane, 1970
"Dover Beach"
Without Love, 1945
The Anniversary Party, 2001
"Night Mail"
Night Mail, 1936"Funeral Blues"
Four Weddings and a Funeral, 1994"As I Walked Out One Evening"
Before Sunrise, 1995
"The Albatross"
A Very Long Engagement, 2004"The Jewels"
La Letrice [The Reader], 1988
Biermann, Wolf
"The Girl from Stuttgart"
Germany in Autumn, 1978
"One Art"
In Her Shoes, 2005
"The Tyger"
The End of the Affair, 1955
The Horse's Mouth, 1958
Blade Runner, 1982
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, 2002"America: A Prophecy"
"The Fly"
Blade Runner, 1982From "Milton; ["And did those feet in ancient time"]
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, 1962
Privilege, 1967
Chariots of Fire, 1981
Calendar Girls, 2003"The Sick Rose"
Educating Rita, 1983"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
Bull Durham, 1988"The Everlasting Gospel" ["The vision of Christ that thou dost see . . ."]
"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
Dead Man, 1995"Auguries of Innocence"
Dead Man, 1995
In the Bedroom, 2001
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, 2001"The Little Black Boy"
The Horse's Mouth, 1958
"To My Dear and Loving Husband"
Le Divorce, 2003
Brecht, Bertolt
"Germany Pale Mother"
Germany Pale Mother, 1980
"Die Moritat von Mackie Messer"
Quiz Show, 1994
"Aurora Leigh," ii
Take the High Ground, 1953"A Child's Grave at Florence"
Tea with Mussolini, 1999
"Sordello"
The Barretts of Wimpole Street, 1934"The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
The Sweet Hereafter, 1997
"2 p.m. Beer"
"Old Man, Dead in a Room"
Barfly, 1987
"A Red, Red Rose"
Side Street, 1950
"Afton Water" ["Flow gently, sweet Afton . . ."]
Pride and Prejudice, 1940
"She Walks in Beauty"
Blockade, 1938
Jamaica Inn, 1939Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, IV.178 ["There is a pleasure in the pathless woods"]
The Bridges of Madison County, 1995Don Juan
Don Juan de Marco, 1995
"The Walrus and the Carpenter"
Today We Live, 1933
The Clairvoyant, 1934
"Prologue"
"Wife of Bath's Tale" ["the woe that is in marriage"]
Sylvia, 2003
Clough, Arthur Hugh
"Dipsychus"
The Quiet American, 2002
Cocteau, Jean
"Les Muses"
Peau d'ane, 1970
Coleridge, Hartley
"Sonnet VII" ["Is love a fancy or a feeling"]
Sense and Sensibility, 1995
"Kubla Khan"
Citizen Kane, 1941
Pandaemonium, 2000
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner "
Out of Africa, 1985
Congreve, William
from The Mourning Bride, Act iii, Scene 8 ["Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned..."]
Adam's Rib, 1949
"Marriage"
Reality Bites, 1994
"The Castaway"
Sense and Sensibility, 1995
"i carry your heart with me"
In Her Shoes, 2005"somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond"
Hannah and Her Sisters, 1986
"she being brand"
Plain Clothes, 1988
"Vita Nuova, III"
Hannibal, 2001
"Ample make this Bed"
Sophie's Choice, 1982"Because I could not stop for Death"
Crimes and Misdemeanors, 1989
Sophie's Choice, 1982"'Hope' is the thing with feathers"
Quiz Show, 1994
Autumn in New York, 2000"Two Butterflies went out at Noon"
Autumn in New York, 2000"We never know how high we are"
Seabiscuit, 2003
"Holy Sonnet X" ["Death Be Not Proud"]
The Exorcist III, 1990
W;t, 2001
Douglas, Lord Alfred
"In Summer"
"Two Loves"
Wilde, 1997
Dowson, Ernest
"Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam"
Days of Wine and Roses, 1962
Dryden, John
translation from Horace, Book 3, Ode 29 ["Happy the man, and happy he alone..."]
Tom Jones, 1963
"East Coker"
Butley, 1974"The Hollow Men"
Apocalypse Now, 1979
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Love and Death, 1975
Apocalypse Now, 1979
Till Human Voices Wake Us, 2002
The Fog of War, 2003"Little Gidding" ["We shall not cease from exploration"]
The Fog of War, 2003"Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"
Logan's Run, 1976
"The Waste Land" ["April is the cruelest month..."]
Without Love, 1945
"Nudité de la vérité"
Alphaville, 1965
Field, Eugene
"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod"
Dennis the Menace, 1993
"Death of the Hired Man"
Frenzy, 1972"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Telefon, 1977
Dreamcatcher, 2003"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
The Outsiders, 1983"The Road Not Taken" [in Italian]
Down by Law, 1986
"Ballad of a Sleepwalker"
Revenge, 1990"Backwaters"
In the Cut, 2003
"Howl"
Hairspray, 1988
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
"Erlkonig"
Burning Secret, 1988
Gray, Thomas
"Elegy (Written in a Country Churchyard)"
Bull Durham, 1988
Gregory, [Isabella Augusta] Lady
"Donal Óg"
The Dead, 1987
Gresham, Joy
"Snow in Madrid"
Shadowlands, 1993
"Drummer Hodge"
The History Boys, 2006
Hayes, J. Milton
"The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God"
St. Martin's Lane, 1938
Heber, Reginald
"Hymns" ["Where every prospect pleases / And only man is vile"]
Born to Kill, 1947
"Invictus"
Invictus, 2009
"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" ["Gather ye Rose-Buds while ye may"]
A Prarie Home Companion, 2006"Upon Julia's Clothes"
Julia, 1977
Hood, Thomas
"Silence"
The Piano, 1993
"Spring and Fall"
Vision Quest, 1985
From A Shropshire Lad (XL) ["Into my heart an air that kills"]
Walkabout, 1971"To an Athlete Dying Young"
Out of Africa, 1985From A Shropshire Lad (XIII) ["When I was one-and-twenty"]
Stage Struck, 1958
"Montage of a Dream Deferred"
A Raisin in the Sun, 1961
"Song to Celia" ["Drink to me only with thine eyes"]
Ghosts on the Loose,1943
from Endymion ["A thing of beauty is a joy forever"]
Portrait of Jenny, 1948
White Men Can't Jump, 1992"To Autumn"
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1969
Bridget Jones's Diary, 2001"La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
In the Cut, 2003"When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be"
Brief Encounter, 1945
"Let Evening Come"
In Her Shoes, 2005
Key, Francis Scott
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
Since You Went Away, 1944
Khayyam, Omar
The Rubaiyat, 7 ["The Bird of Time has but a little way . . ."]
Morning Glory, 1933
Unfaithful, 2002
The Rubaiyat, 46 ["O threats of hell and hopes of Paradise..."]
Duel in the Sun, 1946
"Gunga Din"
Gunga Din, 1939
Two-Way Stretch, 1959
Sylvia, 2003"The Conundrum of the Workshops"
F for Fake, 1974"Tomlinson" ["the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one"]
Lifeboat, 1944
"If—"
St. Martin's Lane, 1938
"Ignorance"
Holy Smoke, 1999
"Self-Pity"
G.I. Jane, 1997
Lazarus, Emma
"The New Colossus"
Saboteur, 1942
Since You Went Away, 1944
"At David's Grave"
Any Mother's Son, 1997
"The Song of Hiawatha"
Here We Go Again, 1942
Desk Set, 1957
Spider Man 2, 2004
"My Lost Youth"
In the Bedroom, 2001
"Poem of the Solea;
Little Ashes, 2009
Lowell, James Russell
"The Present Crisis" ["Once to every man and nation..."]
Kid Glove Killer, 1942
Marlowe, Christopher
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, 1939
Come Live with Me, 1941
Richard III, 1995"Hero and Leander" ["Whoever loved that loved not at first sight"]
Intolerable Cruelty, 2003The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, V, 100 ["...make me immortal with a kiss"]
The Ruling Class, 1972
"To His Coy Mistress"
A Farewell to Arms, 1932
A Matter of Life and Death, 1946
The 25th Hour, 2002"The Definition of Love"
The Daytrippers, 1996
McCrae, John
"In Flanders Fields"
Mr. Holland's Opus, 1995
"Coward"
Home of the Brave, 1949
"Sonnet: Love Is Not All"
Take the High Ground, 1953"First Fig"
A River Runs through It, 1992
"God's World"
"To a Young Poet"
Autumn in New York, 2000
"Elaine"
Without Love, 1945
Miller, Alice Duer
"The White Cliffs"
The White Cliffs of Dover, 1944
"Lycidas" ["Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new"]
The Horse's Mouth, 1958from Paradise Lost IV. 846 ["Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful
goodness is"]
The Crow, 1994from "Comus" [Sabrina fair..."]
Sabrina, 1995
Montejo, Eugenio
"The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer"
21 Grams, 2003
"The Dead Woman"
Truly Madly Deeply, 1991"The Enigmas"
Mindwalk, 1991"Sonnet 17"
Patch Adams, 1998Various poems
Il Postino, 1994
"The Parable of the Old Man and the Young"
"Dulce et Decorum Est"
"Greater Love"
Regeneration, 1997
"I Go Back To May"
Into the Wild, 2008
"Resume"
Girl, Interrupted, 1999"Midnight"
Autumn in New York, 2000
"The Raven"
The Raven, 1935
Young Guns, 1988
The Crow, 1994"Ulalume"
Lolita, 1962
The Ladykillers, 2004"El Dorado"
El Dorado, 1967"Alone"
The Krays, 1990"Annabel Lee"
Stage Struck, 1958
Play Misty for Me, 1971
Holes, 2003
"To Helen"
The Ladykillers, 2004
Pope, Alexander
"Eloisa to Abelard"
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004
Pudney, John
"For Johnny"
"Missing"
Way to the Stars, 1945
Raleigh, Sir Walter
"His Pilgrimage"
A Matter of Life and Death, 1946"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, 1939
Richard III, 1995
"The Panther,"
Another Woman, 1988
Awakenings, 1990"Archaic Torso of Apollo"
Another Woman, 1988
"Remember"
Kiss Me Deadly, 1955
Sassoon, Siegfried
"Base Details"
Regeneration, 1997
Scott, Sir Walter
Marmion VI.30 ["O woman! in our hours of ease"]
The Prisoner of Zenda, 1937
Marmion VI.532-3 ["O what a tangled web we weave"]
The Perfect Man, 2005"Love as a Theme of Poets"
A Matter of Life and Death, 1946"Patriotism"
Groundhog Day, 1993
Seeger, Alan
"I Have a Rendezvous with Death"
Cast a Giant Shadow, 1966
Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2 ["How weary, stale, flat, and uprofitable..."]
Lola Montes, 1955Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 1 ["To be or not to be"]
Morning Glory, 1933
My Darling Clementine, 1946
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, 1991Henry IV, Part 1
My Own Private Idaho, 1991Henry V, Act 3, Scene 1
Too Much, Too Soon, 1958Henry V [St. Crispin's Day speech]
Too Much, Too Soon, 1958
Renaissance Man, 1994Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene 2 ["The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars"]
Intolerable Cruelty, 2003
Good Night and Good Luck, 2005Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2 ["Cowards die many times before their deaths"]
The Human Stain, 2003Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2
Pinero, 2001Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5 ["Tomorrow and tomorrow...]
Smoke, 1995A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, Scene 2 ["Jack shall have Jill"]
The Anniversary Party, 2001Othello, Act 3, Scene 3 ["Oh, curse of marriage..."]
The Unfaithful, 1947Richard II, Act 2, Scene 1
The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1934Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2 ["O Romeo, Romeo..."]
Morning Glory, 1933
This Land is Mine, 1943
Tea with Mussolini, 1999Romeo and Juliet, various passages
Stage Struck, 1958
Tumbleweeds, 1999The Tempest, Act 3, Scene 2 ["The isle is full of noises..."]
The Four Feathers, 1939Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5 ["Some are born great..."]
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, 1944"Sonnet 29" ["When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes"]
In a Lonely Place, 1950
"Sonnet 94" ["They that have power to hurt and will do none"]
A Map of the World, 1999"Sonnet 116" ["Let me not to the marriage of true minds"]
The Trouble with Harry, 1955
Sense and Sensibility, 1995
"Venus and Adonis" ["Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears"]
Intolerable Cruelty, 2003
"Adonais" 40 ["He has outsoared the shadow of our night"]
The Thin Man Goes Home, 1944"Love's Philosophy"
In & Out, 1997
Siegel, Eli
"Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana"
Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana, 2005
"The Meaning of Birds"
Blue Car, 2002
Sorley, Charles Hamilton
"The Song of the Ungirt Runners"
Clockwork Mice, 1995
Spenser, Edmund
The Faerie Queene V, ii, 39 ["For whatsoever from one place doth fall..."]
Sense and Sensibility, 1995
Stickney, Trumbull
"Song"
The Good Shepherd, 2006
"Requiem"
They Were Expendable, 1945
The Horse's Mouth, 1958"My House, I Say"
Undercurrent, 1946"My Wife"
Tender Comrade, 1943
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1936
The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957
The Falcon and the Snowman, 1985"Maud" III. 23-5
The Thin Man Goes Home, 1944"Crossing the Bar"
Finding Graceland, 1998"The Lady of Shalott"
The Mirror Crack'd, 1980"Tithonus"
Shadow of the Vampire, 2000
"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"
Back to School, 1986
Dangerous Minds, 1995"And Death Shall Have No Dominion"
The Weight of Water, 2000
Solaris, 2002
Valéry, Paul
"Le Cimetiere Marin"
The Victors, 1963
"Song of Autumn"
The Longest Day
"The Untold Want"
Now, Voyager, 1942
Love and Death on Long Island, 1997"I Sing the Body Electric"
Bull Durham, 1988"Song of Myself"
"Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking"
Beautiful Dreamers, 1990
"Oh Captain! My Captain!"
Dead Poets Society, 1989
Intolerance, 1916
L.I.E., 2001
"Spontaneous Me"
The Notebook, 2004"So Long"
The Notebook, 2004"Passage to India" ["Sail forth, steer for the deep waters only"]
Street Scene, 1931
Wilde, Oscar
"The Sphinx"
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1945"The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
Wilde, 1997
Williamson, Marianne
"A Return to Love"
Coach Carter, 2005
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
Splendor in the Grass, 1961
Alice in Wonderland, 1966
A River Runs Through It, 1992"Tintern Abbey"
Pandaemonium, 2000
Wylie, Elinor
"The Eagle and the Mole"
American Splendor, 2003
"An Irish Airman Forsees his Death"
Memphis Belle, 1990"The Young Man's Song" ["Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny..."]
Must Love Dogs, 2005"When You are Old"
Peggy Sue Got Married, 1986"Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"
84 Charing Cross Road, 1987"The Song of Wandering Aengus"
Bridges of Madison County, 1995"The Stolen Child"
A. I.: Artificial Intelligence, 2001"The Stolen Child"
A. I.: Artificial Intelligence, 2001
Blue Car, 2002"The Sorrow of Love"
Sylvia, 2003"The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
Million Dollar Baby, 2004
This list first appeared in The Michigan Quarterly Review (Volume XLIII, Issue 2, Spring 2004).