| Publisher's Preface | ix |
| L'Envoi [1907] (You who have lived in the land ...) | 11 |
| To the Man of the High North (My rhymes are rough, and often in my rhyming ...) | 13 |
| The Men That Don't Fit in (There's a race of men that don't fit in ...) | 14 |
| The Rhyme of the Restless Ones (We couldn't sit and study for the law ...) | 16 |
| The Younger Son (If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land ...) | 18 |
| The Three Voices (The waves have a story to tell me ...) | 21 |
| The Call of the Wild (Have you gazed on naked grandeur where there's nothing else to gaze on ..?) | 23 |
| The Song of the Mouth-Organ (I'm a homely little bit of tin and bone ...) | 25 |
| The Trail of 'Ninety-Eight (Gold! We leapt from our benches. Gold! We sprang from our stools ...) | 28 |
| The Land God Forgot (The lonely sunsets flare forlorn ...) | 35 |
| The Ballad of the Northern Lights (One of the Down and Out--that's me. Stare at me well, aye, stare!) | 36 |
| Comfort (Say! You've struck a heap of trouble ...) | 46 |
| The Ballad of Gum-Boot Ben (He was an old prospector with a vision bleared and dim ...) | 47 |
| The Low-Down White (This is the pay-day up at the mines, when the bearded brutes come down ...) | 50 |
| The Man from Eldorado (He's the man from Eldorado, and he's just arrived in town ...) | 52 |
| The Reckoning (It's fine to have a blow-out in a fancy restaurant ...) | 56 |
| The Shooting of Dan McGrew (A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon ...) | 57 |
| The Harpy (There was a woman, and she was wise; woefully wise was she ...) | 61 |
| The Ballad of the Black Fox Skin (There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame ...) | 64 |
| The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike (This is the tale that was told to me by the man with the crystal eye ...) | 71 |
| The Pines (We sleep in the sleep of ages, the bleak, barbarian pines ...) | 75 |
| The Wood-Cutter (The sky is like an envelope ...) | 77 |
| The Telegraph Operator (I will not wash my face ...) | 80 |
| The Ballad of Pious Pete (I tried to refine that neighbor of mine, honest to God, I did ...) | 83 |
| The Lone Trail (Ye who know the Lone Trail fain would follow it ...) | 88 |
| The Song of the Wage-Slave (When the long, long day is over, and the Big Boss gives me my pay ...) | 90 |
| The Prospector (I strolled up old Bonanza, where I staked in 'Ninety-Eight ...) | 93 |
| My Friends (The man above was a murderer, the man below was a thief ...) | 97 |
| The Black Sheep (Hark to the ewe that bore him ...) | 100 |
| Clancy of The Mounted Police (In the little Crimson Manual it's written plain and clear ...) | 103 |
| Music in the Bush (O'er the dark pines she sees the silver moon ...) | 110 |
| The Ballad of Hard-Luck Henry (Now wouldn't you expect to find a man an awful crank ..?) | 112 |
| The Lure of Little Voices (There's a cry from out the loneliness--oh, listen, Honey, listen!) | 116 |
| Premonition (Twas a year ago and the moon was bright ...) | 118 |
| The Spell of the Yukon (I wanted the gold, and I sought it ...) | 119 |
| Men of the High North (Men of the High North, the wild sky is blazing ...) | 122 |
| The Rhyrne of the Remittance Man (There's a four-pronged buck a-swinging in the shadow of my cabin ...) | 124 |
| The Cremation of Sam McGee (There are strange things done in the midnight sun ...) | 126 |
| The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill (I took a contract to bury the body of blasphemous Bill MacKie ...) | 130 |
| The Tramps (Can you recall, dear comrade, when we tramped God's land together ..?) | 135 |
| Grin (If you're up against a bruiser and you're getting knocked about ...) | 136 |
| The Heart of the Sourdough (There, where the mighty mountains bare their fangs unto the moon ...) | 138 |
| The Little Old Log Cabin (When a man gits on his uppers in a hard-pan sort of town ...) | 140 |
| The Parson's Son (This is the song of the parson's son, as he squats in his shack alone ...) | 142 |
| The Law of the Yukon (This is the Law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain ...) | 145 |
| Lost (Black is the sky, but the land is white ...) | 150 |
| L'Envoi [1909] (We talked of yesteryears, of trails and treasure ...) | 155 |
| Glossary | 157 |