These are the chapter headings to be found in the 1913 U.K. edition of Songs from Books. The verses are listed by first line. For a chronological listing by stories or chapters within books click here. The 14 headings from The Jungle Books were not included in the 1912 American Edition of Songs from Books.
| Title | Book | First line | Notes |
| A stone’s throw out | Plain Tales from the Hills | A stone’s throw out on either hand |  |
| Pity poor fighting men | Sussex xxx and xxxiv | All the world over, nursing their scars | |
| Thrown away | Plain Tales from the Hills | And some are sulky, while some will plunge | |
| At the hole where he went in | The Jungle Book | At the hole where he went in | |
| Beat off ? | The Naulahka | Beat off in our last fight were we ? | |
| Because I sought it | The Naulahka | Because I sought it far from men | |
| Before my Spring | Life’s Handicap | Before my Spring I garnered Autumn’s gain. | |
| The Oxen | Beast and Man in India | Between the waving tufts of jungle-grass | |
| Beware the man | The Naulahka | Beware the man who’s crossed in love | |
| Cry “Murder” | Plain Tales from the Hills | Cry “Murder” in the market-place, and each | |
| Dark children of the mere | Beast and Man in India | Dark children of the mere | |
| For our white and our excellent nights | The Second Jungle Book | For our white and our excellent nights—for the nights of swift running | |
| Go, stalk the red deer .. | Plain Tales from the Hills | Go, stalk the red deer o’er the heather | |
| He drank strong waters | Plain Tales from the Hills | He drank strong waters, and his speech was coarse | |
| Maxims of Baloo | The Jungle Book | His spots are the joy of the Leopard: his horns are the Buffalo’s pride, | |
| I have a thousand men | The Light that Failed | I have a thousand men, said he, | |
| I will remember what I was | The Jungle Book | I will remember what I was. I am sick of rope and chain— | |
| If I have taken the common clay | The Light that Failed | If I have taken the common clay | |
| In the daytime | Plain Tales from the Hills | In the daytime, when she moved about me | |
| It was not in the open fight | Plain Tales from the Hills | It was not in the open fight | |
| Less you want your toes trod off | Many Inventions | Less you want your toes trod off you’d better get back at oince | |
| Little Blind Fish | Plain Tales from the Hills | Little Blind Fish, thou art marvellous wise | |
| Look, you hve cast out love | Plain Tales from the Hills | Look, you have cast out love, what gods are there | |
| Man goes to Man! | The Second Jungle Book | Man goes to Man! Cry the challenge through the Jungle! | |
| Not though you die tonight | Plain Tales from the Hills | Not though you die tonight, O Sweet, and wail | |
| Night Song in the Jungle | The Jungle Book | Now Chil the Kite brings home the night | |
| Now it is not good… | The Naulahka | Now it is nor good for the Christian’s health, to hustle the Aryan brown | |
| Oh hush thee my baby | The Jungle Book | Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us, | |
| Pit where the buffalo cooled his hide | Plain Tales from the Hills | Pit where the buffalo cooled his hide | |
| Pleasant it is | Plain Tales from the Hills | Pleasant it is for the Little Tin Gods | |
| Put forth to watch | Sussex xxxiv | Put forth to watch, unschooled, alone | |
| Ride with an idle whip | Plain Tales from the Hills | Ride with an idle whip, ride with an unused heel | |
| Rosicrucian subtleties | Plain Tales from the Hills | Rosicrucian subtleties | |
| So we loosed a bloomin’ volley | Plain Tales from the Hills | So we loosed a bloomin’ volley | |
| So we settled it | The Light that Failed | So we settled it all when the storm was done | |
| Stopped, in the straight | Plain Tales from the Hills | Stopped in the straight, when the race was his own | |
| The beasts are very wise | Beast and Man in India | The beasts are very wise | |
| The doors were wide | Life’s Handicap | The doors were wide, the story saith | |
| The Earth gave up her dead | Life’s Handicap | The Earth gave up her dead that tide | |
| The lark will make her hymn | The Light that Failed | The lark will make her hymn to God | |
| The night we felt the earth would move | The Second Jungle Book | The night we felt the earth would move | |
| The people of the Eastern Ice | The Second Jungle Book | The People of the Eastern Ice, they are melting like the snow— | |
| The sky is lead | Life’s Handicap | The sky is lead and our faces are red | |
| The stream is shrunk, the pool is dry | The Second Jungle Book | The stream is shrunk—the pool is dry, | |
| The torn boughs trailing | Beast and Man in India | The torn boughs trailing | |
| The wolf-cub at even | The Light that Failed | The wolf-cub at even lay hid in the corn | |
| The World hath set | Plain Tales from the Hills | The World hath set its heavy yoke | |
| Then a pile of heads, he laid | Plain Tales from the Hills | Then a pile of heads, he laid | |
| Then we brought the lances | The Light that Failed | Then we brought the lances down—then the trumpets blew | |
| There is a tide | Plain Tales from the Hills | There is a tide in the affairs of men | |
| There is pleasure in the wet, wet clay | The Naulahka | There is pleasure in the wet, wet clay | |
| There was a strife | The Naulahka | There was a strife ‘twixt man and maid | |
| There were three friends | The Light that Failed | There were three friends that buried the fourth | |
| There’s a convict more | Life’s Handicap | There’s a convict more in the Central Jail | |
| These are the Four that are never content | The Second Jungle Book | These are the Four that are never content, that have never been filled since the Dews began— | |
| They burnt a corpse | Plain Tales from the Hills | They burnt a corpse upon the sand | |
| The Goat | Beast and Man in India | They killed a Child to please the Gods | |
| This I saw | The Naulahka | This I saw when the rites were done | |
| Thus, for a season | Plain Tales from the Hills | Thus, for a season, they fought it fair | |
| Tonight, God knows | Plain Tales from the Hills | Tonight, God knows what thing shall tide, | |
| Unto whose use | Kim | Unto whose use the pregnant suns are poised | |
| Veil them. cover them, wall them sound | The Second Jungle Book | Veil them, cover them, wall them round— | |
| We be the Gods | The Naulahka | We be the Gods of the East | |
| We meet in an evil land | The Naulahka | We meet in an evil land | |
| The Song of the Engines | The Day’s Work | We now, held in captivity | |
| What of the hunting | The Jungle Book | What of the hunting, hunter bold? | |
| When a lover hies abroad | The Naulahka | When a Lover hies abroad | |
| When the earth was sick | Plain Tales from the Hills | When the earth was sick, and the skiess were grey | |
| When ye say to Tabaqui ‘My Brother!’ | The Second Jungle Book | When ye say to Tabaqui, “My Brother!” when ye call the Hyena to meat, | |
| While the snaffle holds | Plain Tales from the Hills | While the snaffle holds, or the long-neck stings | |
| Yet at the last | The Light that Failed | Yet at the last, ere our spearmen had found him | |
| You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks old | The Jungle Book | You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks old | |
| Your patience, Sirs. | The Naulahka | Your patience, Sirs, The Devil took me up. | |