All flesh is grass

Uses

• "All Flesh is Grass", a poem by English poet Christina Rossetti
• "War Photographer" by the Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy, where it describes the sights seen in war photographs
• "The Omnivore's Dilemma", a nonfiction book by Michael Pollan
• it is repeated in a line of the poem "Difficulties of a Statesman" by T. S. Eliot
• All Flesh is Grass, a novel by American science fiction writer Clifford D. Simak
• a book on agriculture by American author Gene Logsdon
• an album by Norwegian dark metal band Madder Mortem
• it was inscribed on the pope's chest in the painting King Edward VI and the Pope
• it was inscribed on the pope's chest in the painting Deathbed of Henry VIII
• cited by Thomas Dekker in The Shoemakers' Holiday
• it was used as text for "Denn alles Fleisch es ist wie Gras", the second movement of the German Requiem by Johannes Brahms
• it was used in the first stanza of Kipling's poem entitled "Arithmetic on the Frontier"
• it was used in the third stanza of the ninth poem in "Ten Songs" by W. H. Auden to reinforce the idea of "Tempus Fugit" used earlier in the stanza.
• the volunteer Marek recites it to Švejk in Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War.
• in the Michael Cimino film, Heaven's Gate, John Hurt's character Billy Irvine mutters it to himself as, appalled, he drunkenly watches a battle unfold around him and is then killed.
• the phrase appeared in an episode of Cracker,
• it gives the tone to the second part of the 1889 Swedish summer hymn En vänlig grönskas rika dräkt by Carl David af Wirsén
• quoted by Evan Dando in the bridge of The Lemonheads song 6ix.
• "All Flesh Is Grass" is the title of a Doctor Who novel written by Una McCormack, released in 2020