These verses are all included in our main list of Kiplig’s poems. They are also to be found in the Sussex Edition (vol. xxxiv) and the Burwash Edition (vol. xxvii), volumes entitled “Songs from Books and Later Songs from Books. They are listed here by the earlier collections in which they appear.
| Title | Article/Story | First line | Notes |
| SEA WARFARE (1916) |
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| The Lowestoft Boat | The Fringes of the Fleet | In Lowestoft a boat was laid |  |
| Minesweepers | The Fringes of the Fleet | Dawn off the Foreland – the young flood making | |
| Harwich Ladies | The Fringes of the Fleet | Farewell and adieu to you, Harwich Ladies, | |
| Tin Fish | The Fringes of the Fleet | The ships destroy us above | |
| A Song in Storm | The Fringes of the Fleet | Be well assured that on our side | |
| The North Sea Patrol | The Fringes of the Fleet | When the East wind is brewed fresh and fresh every morning | |
| The Trade | Tales of “The Trade” | They bear, in place of classic names | |
| The Verdicts | Destroyers at Jutland | Not in the thick of the fight | |
| A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES (1917) |
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| MacDonough’s Song | As Easy as ABC | Whether the State can loose and bind | |
| The Land | Friendly Brook | When Julius Fabricius, Sub-Prefect of the Weald, | |
| Helen all Alone | In the Same Boat | There was darkness under Heaven | |
| The Children | The Honours of War | These were our children who died | |
| The Comforters | The Dog Hervey | Until thy feet have trod the Road | |
| The Press | The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat | The Soldier may forget his Sword, | |
| Jobson’s Amen | In the Presence | Blessed be the English and all their ways and works. | |
| A Translation | Regulus | There are whose study is of smells, | |
| Rebirth | The Edge of the Evening | If any God should say, | |
| The Legend of Mirth | The Horse Marines | The four Archangels, so the legends tell, | |
| The Floods | My Son’s Wife | The rain it rains without a stay | |
| The Fabulists | My Son’s Wife | When all the world would keep a matter hid, | |
| The Song of Seven Cities | The Vortex | I was Lord of Cities very sumptuously builded. | |
| The Beginnings | Mary Postgate | It was not part of their blood, | |
| LAND AND SEA TALES (1923) |
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| Preface | Land and Sea Tales | To all to whom this little book may come | |
| The Junk and the Dhow | An Unqualified Pilot | Once a pair of savages found a stranded tree | |
| The Master-Cook | His Gift | With us there was a Master Cook that came | |
| The Hour of the Angel | Stalky | Sooner or lat — in earnest or in jest– | |
| The Last Lap | The Burning of the Sarah Sands | How do we know by the bank-high river | |
| A Departure | The Parable of Boy Jones | Since first the White Horse banner blew free | |
| The Nurses | The Bold ‘Prentice | When, with pain, he desires to explain to his servitor, | |
| A Counting-out Song | Land and Sea Tales | What is the song the children sing | |
| DEBITS AND CREDITS (1926) |
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| The Changeling | Sea Constables | Or ever the battered liners sank | |
| The Vineyard | Sea Constables | At the eleventh hour he came | |
| Banquet Night | In the Interests of the Brethren | ‘Once in so often’ King Solomon said | |
| To the Companions | The United Idolaters | How come it that at even tide | |
| The Centaurs | The United Idolaters | Up came the young Centaur-colts. | |
| Late came the God | The Wish House | Late came the God, having sent his fore-runners | |
| Rahere | The Wish House | Rahere, King Henry’s Jester, feared by all the Norman Lords | |
| The Survival | The Janeites | Surely, after days unnumbered, I behold | |
| Jane’s Marruage | The Janeites | Jane went to Paradise | |
| The Portent | The Prophet and the Country | Oh, late-withdrawn from human-kind | |
| Alnaschar and the Oxen | The Bull that Thought | There’s a pasture in a valley. where the hanging woods divide | |
| Gipsy Vans | A Madonna of the Trenches | Unless you come of the Gipsy stock | |
| The Birthright | The Propagation of Knowledge | I was Lord of Cities very sumptuously builded. | |
| A Legend of Truth | The Propagation of Knowledge | It was not part of their blood, | |
| We and They | A Friend of the Family | Whether the State can loose and bind | |
| The Supports | On the Gate | When Julius Fabricius, Sub-Prefect of the Weald, | |
| Untimely | The Eye of Allah | There was darkness under Heaven | |
| The Last Ode | The Eye of Allah | These were our children who died | |
| The Burden | The Gardener | Until thy feet have trod the Road | |
| LIMITS AND RENEWALS (1932) |
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| Gertrude’s Prayer | Dayspring Mishandled | That which s marred at birth men shall not mend | |
| Dinah in Heaven | The Woman in his Life | She did not know that she was dead | |
| Four-Feet | The Woman in his Life | I have done mostly what most men do | |
| The Totem | The Tie | Ere the mother’s milk had died | |
| The Disciple | The Church that was at Antioch | He that hath a Gospel | |
| The Playmate | Aunt Ellen | She is not Folly–that I know | |
| Naaman’s Song | Aunt Ellen | ‘ ‘Go wash thyself in Jordan, go wash thee | |
| The Mother’s Son | Fairy-kist | I have a dream, a dreadful dream | |
| The Coiner | A Naval Mutiny | Against the Bermudas we foundered, thereby | |
| Akbager’s Bridge | The Debt | Jellaludin Muhammad Akbar, Guardian of Mankind | |
| At his Execution | The Manner of Men | I am made all things to all men | |
| The Threshold | Unprofessional | In their deepest caverns of limestone | |
| Neighbours | Beauty Spots | The man that is open f heart to hid neighbours | |
| The Expert | Beauty Spots | Youth that trafficed long with death | |
| The Curé | The Miracle of Saint Jubanus | Long years ago, ere R-lls or R-yce | |
| Song of Seventy Horses | The Miracle of Saint Jubanus | Whether the throat-closing brick-fields by Lille | |
| Hymn to physical pain | The Tender Achilles | Dread Mother of Forgetfulness | |
| The Penalty | The Tender Achilles | Once in life I watched a star | |