Appendix: Reading Record
Poetry
‘1915’ – Robert Graves
‘A Backward Spring’ – Thomas Hardy
‘A Ballad of John Silver’ – John Masefield
‘A Boy’s Song’ – James Hogg
‘A Smuggler’s Song’ – Rudyard Kipling
‘A Thing of Beauty’ – John Keats
‘About Ben Adhem’ – James Henry Leigh Hunt
‘Adlestrop’ – Edward Thomas
‘Albert and the Lion’ – Marriott Edgar
‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’ – Cecil F.
Alexander
‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ – Alfred Lord
Tennyson
‘Cherries’ – Wilfred Gibson
‘Christmas Carol’ – Eleanor Farjeon
‘Christmas’ – John Betjemen
‘Evening’ – Thomas Miller
‘Everybody Sang’ – Siegfried Sassoon
‘Everything Touches’ – Roger McGough
‘Fireworks’ – Amy Lowell
‘Flowers’ – Thomas Hood
‘Flowers’ – Wendy Cope
‘For These’ – Edward Thomas
‘An English Wood’ – Robert Graves
‘Friendship’ – Caroline Norton
‘Anchor Song’ – Rudyard Kipling
‘Friendship’ – Elizabeth Jennings
‘And did those feet…’ – William Blake
‘From a Railway Carriage’ – Robert Louis
Stevenson
‘Apples’ – Laurie Lee
‘April Rise’ – Laurie Lee
‘Arabia’ – Walter de la Mare
‘Ariel’s Song’ - Shakespeare
‘Gunga Din’ – Rudyard Kipling
‘High Flight’ – John Magee
‘I remember, I remember’ – Thomas Hood
‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’ – Adrienne Rich
‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ – William
Wordsworth
‘Autumn Birds’ – John Clare
‘If’ – Rudyard Kipling
‘Autumn Fires’ – Robert Louis Stevenson
‘In Flanders Fields’ – John McCrae
‘Beer’ – George Arnold
‘It was long ago’ – Eleanor Farjeon
‘Believe me if all those endearing young
charms’ – Thomas Moore
‘Jonah and the Grampus’ – Marriott Edgar
‘Beyond the Sea’ – Thomas Love Peacock
‘Bossy and Daisy’ – Margaret Deland
‘Brother and Sister’ – George Eliot
‘Cadenabbia’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
‘Cargoes’ – John Masefield
‘King John’s Christmas’ – A. A. Milne
‘Lake of Innisfree’ – W.B. Yeats
‘Lemon Pie’ – Edgar Guest
‘Like as the Waves’ – Shakespeare
‘Little Lamb’ – William Blake
‘Lochinvar’ – Walter Scott
‘Sea Fever’ – John Masefield
‘Longing’ – Paul Laurence Dunbar
‘She Walks in Beauty’ – Lord Byron
‘Louisa’ – William Wordsworth
‘Smuggler’s Song’ – Rudyard Kipling
‘Love III’ – George Herbert
‘Snow’ – Louis MacNiece
‘Maggie and Milly and Molly and May’ – e.e.
cummings
‘Solitary Reaper’ – William Wordsworth
‘Mandalay’ – Rudyard Kipling
‘Meg Merrilies’ – John Keats
‘Moonlight’ – Victoria Sackville West
‘Mother Carey’ – John Masefield
Sonnet 29 – Shakespeare
‘Spring Carol’ – Robert Louis Stevenson
‘Spring Pools’ – Robert Frost
‘Stopping By Woods’ – Robert Frost
‘Music’ – Walter de la Mare
‘Sunrise on the Shore’ – Lucy Maud
Montgomery
‘My Early Home’ – John Clare
‘Sweet Afton’ – Robert Burns
‘My Heart Leaps Up’ – William Wordsworth
‘The Arrow and the Song’ – Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
‘My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose’ – Robert
Burns
‘The Barrel Organ’ – Alfred Noyes
‘Neither Fat Out Nor In Deep’ – Robert Frost
‘The Bright Field’ – R. S. Thomas
‘Nicholas Nye’ – Walter de la Mare
‘The Character of a Happy Life’ – Henry
Wotton
‘No Bread’ – Ian Macmillan
‘Oh Gray and Tender is the Rain’ – Lizette
Woodworth Reese
‘Out in the Dark’ – Edward Thomas
‘Outside the Bakers’ – Helen Farish
‘Pedlar’ – Robert William Service
‘Piano’ – D. H. Lawrence
‘Railway Children’ – Seamus Heaney
‘Rain Music’ – Joseph S. Cotter
‘Rebecca – the girl who slammed doors’ –
Hilaire Belloc
‘Road to Gundagai’ – A. B. Banjo Paterson
‘Roger the Dog’ – Ted Hughes
‘Sailing Barges’ – Adrian Green
‘Scarecrow’ – Walter de la Mare
‘The Circus’ – Clarence Michael Dennis
‘The Darkling Thrush’ – Thomas Hardy
‘The Day is Done’ – Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
‘The Deer’ – John Drinkwater
‘The Enkindled Spring’ – D. H. Lawrence
‘The Evening Darkens Over’ – Robert Bridges
‘The Flower’ – George Herbert
‘The Glory of the Garden’ – Rudyard Kipling
‘The Glow Worm’ – William Wordsworth
‘The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God’ – J.
Milton Hayes
‘The Hair Tonic Bottle’ – Ben King
‘The Heavenly City’ – Stevie Smith
‘The Highwayman’ – Alfred Noyes
‘The Lady of Shallow’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson
‘The Listeners’ – Walter de la Mare
‘Upon Westminster Bridge’ – William
Wordsworth
‘Winter Night’ – Boris Pasternak
‘The Loom of Time’ – Wojja Fink
‘With strawberries we filled a tray…’ – W. E.
Henley
‘The Moon’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley
‘Ye Flags of Piccadilly’ – Arthur Hugh Clough
‘The Old Grey Squirrel’ – Alfred Noyes
Prose
‘The Old Rugged Cross’ – Richard Williams
Novel extracts
‘The Old Sailor’ – A. A. Milne
Black Beauty, extract – Anna Sewell
‘The Old Ships’ – James Elroy Flecker
Cider with Rosie, extracts – Laurie Lee
‘The Oxen’ – Thomas Hardy
France at War, extract ‘Trenches on the
Mountain Front’ – Rudyard Kipling
‘The Path’ – Edward Thomas
‘The Poison Tree’ – William Blake
‘The Sea-Wife’ – Rudyard Kipling
‘The Soldier’ – Rupert Brooke
‘The Splendour Falls’ – Rosemary ClementMoore
‘The Tide Rises’ – Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
‘The Treasure’ – Rupert Brooke
‘The Trouble with Snowmen’ – Roger
McGough
I’ll Tell Me Ma – Brian Keenan
Moby Dick, chapter 1 – Herman Melville
Song of Solomon, extract – Toni Morrison
Treasure Island, chapter 1 – Robert Louis
Stevenson
Short Stories
‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ – Dylan
Thomas
‘Chivalry’ – Neil Gaiman
‘Kew Gardens’ – Virginia Woolf
‘The Village Blacksmith’ – Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
‘Permanent Granite Sunrise’ – Frank Cottrell
Boyce
‘The Wanderers’ – Robert Browning
‘The Bull’ – Saki
‘The Way through the Woods’ – Rudyard
Kipling
‘The Deer’ – John Drinkwater
‘Thoughts in a Garden’ – Andrew Marvell
‘The Emperor’s New Suit’ – Hans Christian
Anderson
‘Time You Old Gypsy Man’ – Ralph Hodgson
‘To a Mouse’ – Robert Burns
‘Tommy’ – Rudyard Kipling
‘Travel’ – Robert Louis Stevenson
‘True Pleasure’ – Charlotte Bronte
‘The Fight in the Ox and Plough’ – George
Mackay Brown
‘The Fisherman and His Wife’ – Brothers
Grimm
‘The Lumber Room’ – Saki
‘The Necklace’ – Guy de Maupassant