Referenced By / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Film

• Kind Hearts and Coronets: After shooting down a hot air balloon, Louis paraphrases The Arrow and the Song.
  "I shot an arrow into the air.
  She fell to Earth in Berkeley Square."
• In Spider-Man 2 Otto Octavius tells Peter: "If you want to get a woman to fall, in love with you, feed her poetry" and quotes the Song of Hiawatha. Peter reads the poem and quotes it to appeal to Mary Jane, with no success.

Music

• Hawkwind, in the song "Assault And Battery...", start out promisingly with some very profound lyrics.
  Lives of great men all remind us
  We can make our lives sublime,
  And, departing, leave behind us
  Footprints on the sands of time;

the problem is that these are lifted from Longfellow's poem A Psalm of Life.^note Henry Wadsworth receives no songwriting credit, however Hawkwind's continuation lyrics display a lot less inspiration:

On these stones, the sacred circle

Where the wizard sages sat;

Let us try to remember

All the times where they were at!

Western Animation

• Classic Disney Shorts:
  • The Silly Symphonies short "Little Hiawatha" depicts Hiawatha as a child hunting in the forest, with narration pastiching the original poem.
  • "The Village Smithy" opens on a blacksmith shop as a muscular figure works inside. As he pounds on an iron bar, he starts reciting The Village Blacksmith... in the distinctive voice of Donald Duck.
• Looney Tunes:
  • "I Haven't Got A Hat": In his debut, Porky Pig tries to recite The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, but his stutter mangles it until it morphs into "The Charge of the Light Brigade".
  • "The Village Smithy": The short opens with an offscreen narrator reciting The Village Blacksmith, with punny visuals to go with the words.
  • "A Gander at Mother Goose" features a parody of The Arrow and the Song where a little Indian "shoots his arrow into the air" and is promptly admonished by an eagle with the arrow in his rear.
  • "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" pits Hiawatha (or a dopier version of him) against Bugs Bunny, who is reading Song of Hiawatha at the beginning of the cartoon.
  • "The Ducksters": One of the questions on the quiz show Truth or AAAAAHHH! is "In what latitude and longitude did the wreck of the Hesperus occur?"
  • "Duck Amuck": Near the end, a dazed Daffy recites the opening to The Village Blacksmith while wearily pounding on an anvil, which the offscreen animator replaces with an explosive shell.
    Daffy: Under a spreading chestnut tree, ⁠the village smithy stands / The smith, a mighty man is he, with large and sinewy—*BOOM* ...hAaAaAaAands.
• Rocky and Bullwinkle: A few Bullwinkle's Corner segments had Bullwinkle reciting poems by "Longfeller", including The Village Blacksmith, The Arrow and the Song and Excelsior
• Terrytoons: "Wreck of the Hesperus" was adapted into a Mighty Mouse cartoon. Needless to say, it had a much happier ending than the original poem.