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