The verses are listed in the order determined by Kipling when he was preparing the collection for U.K. publication in 1913. Click here for a listing by title, .here for a listing by first line,and here for a listing by the books in which they appear, noting the poems from Just So Stories and the Jungle Books which did not appear in the American edition of 2012.
See also the the Chapter headings also included in Songs from Books.
| Title | Book | First line | Notes |
| Cities and Thrones and Powers | Puck of Pook’s Hill . | Cities and Thrones and Powers . |  |
| The Recall | Actions and Reactions | I am the land of their fathers | |
| Puck’s Song | Puck of Pook’s Hill . | See you the ferny ride that steals | |
| The Way through the Woods | Rewards and Fairies . | They shut the road through the woods | |
| A Three-Part Song | Puck of Pook’s Hill . | I’m just in love with all these three | |
| The Run of the Downs | Rewards and Fairies . | The Weald is good, the Downs are best | |
| Brookland Road | Rewards and Fairies . | I was very well pleased with what I knowed | |
| The Sack of the Gods | The Naulahka | Strangers drawn from the ends of the earth, jewelled and plumed were we | |
| The Kingdom | The Naulahka . | Now we are come to our Kingdom | |
| Tarrant Moss | Plain Tales from the Hills | I closed and drew for my love’s sake | |
| Sir Richard’s Song | Puck of Pook’s Hill . | I followed my Duke ere I was a lover | |
| A Tree Song | Puck of Pook’s Hill . | Of all the trees that grow so fair | |
| Cuckoo Song . | Heathfield Parish Memoirs | Tell it to the locked-up trees | |
| A Charm | Rewards and Fairies . | Take of English earth as much . | |
| The Prairie | Letters to the Family | I see the grass shake in the sun for leagues on either hand | |
| Cold Iron | Rewards and Fairies . | Gold is for the mistress-silver for the maid’ . | |
| A Song of Kabir | The Second Jungle Book . | Oh, light was the world that he weighed in his hands! | |
| A Carol | Rewards and Fairies . | Our Lord Who did the Ox command | |
| My New-Cut Ashlae | Life’s Handicap . | My new-cut ashlar takes the light . | |
| Eddi’s Service | Rewards and Fairies . | Eddi, priest of St. Wilfrid . | |
| Shiv and the Grasshopper | The Jungle Book | Shiv, who poured the harvest and made the winds to blow | |
| The Fairies’ Siege | Kim . | I have been given my charge to keep | |
| A Song to Mithras | Puck of Pook’s Hill . | Mithras, God of the Morning, our trumpets waken the Wall! | |
| The New Knighthood | Actions and Reactions | Who gives him the Bath? . | |
| Outsong in the Jungle | The Second Jungle Book | For the sake of him who showed | |
| Harp Song of the Dane Women | Puck of Pook’s Hill , | What is a woman that you forsake her | |
| The Thousandth Man | Rewards and Fairies . | One man in a thousand, Solomon says | |
| The Winners | The Story of the Gadsbys | What is the moral? Who rides may read | |
| A St. Helena Lullaby | Rewards and Fairies . | How far is St. Helena from a little child at play?’ | |
| Chil’s Song | The Second Jungle Book . | These were my companions going forth by night | |
| The Captive | Traffics and Discoveries | Not with an outcry to Allah nor any complaining | |
| The Puzzler | Actions and Reactions | The Celt in all his variants from Builth to Ballyhoo | |
| Hadramauti | Plain Tales from the Hills | Who knows the heart of the Christian? How does reason ? | |
| Gallio’s Song | Actions and Reactions | All day long to the judgment-seat | |
| The Bees and the Flies | Actions and Reactions | A farmer of the Augustan Age | |
| Road-Song of the Bandar-log | The Jungle Book | Here we go in a flung festoon | |
| ,Our Fathers also’ . | Traffics and Discoveries | Thrones, Powers, Dominions, Peoples, Kings | |
| A British-Roman Song | Puck of Pook’s Hill . | My father’s father saw it not | |
| A Pict Song | Puck of Pook’s Hill . | Rome never looks where she treads . | |
| The Stranger | Letters to the Family | The Stranger within my gate | |
| Rimini | Puck of Pook’s Hill . | When I left Rome for Lalage’s sake . | |
| Poor Honest Men | Rewards and Fairies | Your jar of Virginny . | |
| When the Great Ark | Letters to the Family | When the Great Ark, in Vigo Bay | |
| Prophets at Home | Puck of Pook’s Hill . | Prophets have honour all over the Earth | |
| Jubal and Tubal Cain | Letters to the Family | Jubal sang of the Wrath of God | |
| The Voortrekker | Collected | The gull shall whistle in his wake, the blind wave break in fire | |
| A School Song | Stalky & Co. | ‘Let us now praise famous men’ | |
| The Law of the Jungle | The Second Jungle Book . | Now this is the Law of the Jungle-as old and as true as the sky | |
| A Servant when he Reigneth | Letters to the Family | Three things make earth unquiet | |
| ,Our Fathers of Old’ | Rewards and Fairies . | Excellent herbs had our fathers of old | |
| The Heritage | The Empire and the Century | Our Fathers in a wondrous age . | |
| Song of the Fifth River | Puck of Pook’s Hill . | When first by Eden Tree | |
| The Children’s Song | Puck of Pook’s Hill . | Land of our Birth, we pledge to thee | |
| Parade-Song of the Camp-Animals . | The Jungle Book | We lent to Alexander the strength of Hercules | |
| If— | Rewards and Fairies . | If you can keep your head when all about you . | |
| The Prodigal Son | Kim | Here come I to my own again | |
| The Necessitarian | Traffics and Discoveries | I know not in Whose hands are laid . | |
| The Jester | Collected | There are three degrees of bliss | |
| A Song of Travel | Letters to the Family | Where’s the lamp that Hero lit . | |
| The Two-Sided Man | Kim . . | Much I owe to the Land that grew . | |
| Lukannon | The Jungle Book | I met my mates in the morning (and oh but I am old!) | |
| An Astrologer’s Song | Rewards and Fairies . | To the Heavens above us . | |
| The Power of the Dog | Actions and Reactions | There is sorrow enough in the natural way | |
| The Rabbi’s Song | Actions and Reactions | If Thought can reach to Heaven | |
| The Bee Boy’s Song | Puck of Pook’s Hill . | Bees! Bees! Hark to your bees! | |
| The Return of the Children | Traffics and Discoveries | Neither the harps nor the crowns amused, nor the cherubs’ dove-winged races . | |
| Merrow Down | Just So Stories . | There runs a road by Merrow Down . | |
| Old Mother Laidinwool | Puck of Pook’s Hill . | Old Mother Laidinwool had nigh twelve months been dead ‘ | |
| The Camel’s Hump | Just So Stories | The Camel’s hump is an ugly lump | |
| When the cabin portholes … | Just So Stories . | When the cabin port-holes are dark and green . | |
| I am the Most Wise Baviaan | Just So Stories | I am the Most Wise Baviaan, saying in most wise tones | |
| I Keep Six Honest Serving-men | Just So Stories | I keep six honest serving-men | |
| This is the mouth-filling song | Just So Stories . | This is the mouth-filling song of the race that was run by a Boomer | |
| I’ve never sailed the Amaxon | Just So Stories | I’ve never sailed the Amazon | |
| China-going P & Os | Just So Stories . | China-going P. and G.’s | |
| Pussy can sit by the fire | Just So Stories | Pussy can sit by the fire and sing | |
| There was never a Queen like Balkis | Just So Stories | There was never a Queen like Balkis | |
| The Looking-Glass. | Rewards and Fairies . | Queen Bess was Harry’s daughter. Stand forward partners all! | |
| The Queen’s Men | Rewards and Fairies . | Valour and Innocence . | |
| The City of Sleep | The Day’s Work | Over the edge of the purple down | |
| The Widower | Various | For a season there must be pain | |
| The Prayer of Miriam Cohen | Many Inventions | From the wheel and the drift of Things | |
| The Song of the Little Hunter. | The Second Jungle Book . | Ere Mor the Peacock flutters, ere the Monkey People cry | |
| Gow’s Watch | Kim | Your tiercel’s too long at hack, Sir. He’s no eyass . | |
| The Wishing Caps | Kim | Life’s all getting and giving | |
| By the Hoof of the Wild Goat | Plain Tales from the Hills | By the Hoof of the Wild Goat uptossed | |
| Song of the Red War-Boat | Rewards and Fairies . | Shove off from the wharf edge ! Steady ! | |
| Morning Song in the Jungle | The Second Jungle Book . | One moment past our bodies cast | |
| Blue Roses | The Light that Failed | Roses red and roses white . | |
| A Ripple Song. | The Second Jungle Book | Once a ripple came to land | |
| Butterflies . | Traffics and Discoveries | Eyes aloft, over dangerous places | |
| My Lady’s Law | The Naulahka | The Law whereby my lady moves | |
| The Nursing Sister. | The Naulahka | Our sister sayeth such and such | |
| The Love Song of Har Dyal | Plain Tales from the Hills | Alone upon the housetops to the North | |
| A Dedication | Songs from Books | And they were stronger hands than mine . | |
| Mother o’ Mine . | The Light that Failed | If I were hanged on the highest hill . | |
| The Only Son. | Many Inventions | She dropped the bar, she shot the bolt, she fed the fire anew | |
| Mowgli’s Song against People | The Second Jungle Book | I will let loose against you the fleet-footed vines | |
| The Egg-shell | Traffics and Discoveries | The wind took off with the sunset | |
| The King’s Task | Traffics and Discoveries | After the sack of the City, when Rome was sunk to a name | |
| Poseidon’s Law . | Traffics and Discoveries | When the robust and Brass-bound Man commissioned first for sea | |
| A Truthful Song | Rewards and Fairies . | I tell this tale, which is strictly true . | |
| A Smugglers’ Song | Puck of Pook’s Hill . | If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse’s feet | |
| King Henry VII. and the Shipwrights | Rewards and Fairies . | Harry, our King in England, from London town is gone. | |
| The Wet Litany | Traffics and Discoveries | When the water’s countenance | |
| The Ballad of Minepit Shaw | Rewards and Fairies . | About the time that taverns shut | |
| Heriot’s Ford | The Light that Failed | I What’s that that hirples at my side?’ | |
| Frankie’s Trade | Rewards and Fairies . | Old Horn to All Atlantic said | |
| The Juggler’s Song . | Kim | When the drums begin to beat . | |
| Thorkild’s Song | Puck of Pook’s Hill . | There’s no wind along these seas | |
| Angutivaun Taina | The Second Jungle Book | Our gloves are stiff with the frozen blood . | |
| Hunting Song of the Seeonee Pack | The Jungle Book | As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belied | |
| Song of the Men’s Side | Rewards and Fairies . | Once we feared The Beast-when he followed us we ran . | |
| Darzee’s Chaunt | The Jungle Book | Singer and tailor am I | |
| Song of the Galley-slaves | Many Imventions | We pulled for you when the wind was against us | |
| The Four Angels | Actions and Reactions | As Adam lay a-dreaming beneath the Apple Tree | |
| The Prayer | Kim | My Brother kneels, so saith Kabir . | |