Individual Poems

• All poems

Poetry collections

• Schoolboy Lyrics (1881, privately printed)
• Echoes, by Two Writers (1884, with sister Beatrice)
• Departmental Ditties and other verses (1886)
• Departmental Ditties, Barrack-Room Ballads and other verses (1890)
• Barrack-Room Ballads and other verses (1892)
• Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads (1892)
• The Seven Seas (1896)
• Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads (1919)
• The Five Nations (1903)
• A Song of the English (1909)
• Songs from Books (1912)
• The Years Between (1919)
• Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Inclusive Edition, 1885-1918 (1919) (transcription project)

Anthologized:

• "Hymn before Action" in Poems of the Great War (1914)
• From A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919 (1917):
  • "For all we have and are" pp. 52-3.
  • "The Choice" pp. 92-3.

Novels

• The Light That Failed
• The Naulahka, with Wolcott Balestier (1892) (external scan)
  • Verse heading chapter 5 Solo from Libretto of Naulahka
• "Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks (1897) (external scan)
• Kim, 1912 (1901)

Short story collections

• Quartette (1885), co-authored with his father, mother, and sister (transcription project)
• Soldiers Three (1888) (transcription project)
  • The God from the Machine
  • Private Learoyd's Story
  • The Big Drunk Draf'
  • The Solid Muldoon
  • With the Main Guard
  • In the Matter of a Private
  • Black Jack

• The Story of the Gadsbys (1888) (transcription project)
  • Poor Dear Mamma
  • The World Without
  • The Tents of Kedar
  • With Any Amazement
  • The Garden of Eden
  • Fatima
  • The Valley of the Shadow
  • The Swelling of Jordan

• In Black and White (1888) (transcription project)
  • Dray Wara Yow Dee
  • The Judgment of Dungara
  • At Howli Thana
  • Gemini
  • At Twenty-Two
  • In Flood Time
  • The Sending of Dana Da
  • On the City Wall

• Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) [external scan]
  • Lispeth
  • Three and—an Extra, 1886
  • Thrown Away, 1888
  • Miss Youghal's Sais, 1887
  • 'Yoked with an Unbeliever', 1886
  • False Dawn, 1888
  • The Rescue of Pluffles, 1886
  • Cupid's Arrows, 1888
  • The Three Musketeers, 1887
  • His Chance in Life, 1887
  • Watches of the Night, 1887
  • The Other Man, 1886
  • Consequences, 1886
  • The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin, 1887
  • The Taking of Lungtungpen, 1887
  • A Germ-Destroyer, 1887
  • Kidnapped, 1887
  • The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly, 1886
  • In the House of Suddhoo, 1886
  • His Wedded Wife, 1887
  • The Broken-Link Handicap, 1887
  • Beyond the Pale, 1888
  • In Error, 1887
  • A Bank Fraud, 1887
  • Tods' Amendment, 1887
  • The Daughter of the Regiment, 1887
  • In the Pride of his Youth, 1887
  • Pig, 1887
  • The Rout of the White Hussars, 1888
  • The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case, 1888
  • Venus Annodomini, 1886
  • The Bisara of Pooree, 1887
  • A Friend's Friend, 1887
  • The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows, 1884
  • The Madness of Private Ortheris, 1888
  • The Story of Muhammad Din, 1886
  • On the Strength of a Likeness, 1887
  • Wressley of the Foreign Office, 1887
  • By Word of Mouth, 1887
  • To be Filed for Reference, 1888

• The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales (1888) (transcription project)
  • The Phantom ’Rickshaw
  • My Own True Ghost Story
  • The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
  • The Man Who Would Be King

• Under the Deodars (1888) (transcription project)
  • The Education of Otis Yeere
  • At the Pit’s Mouth
  • A Wayside Comedy
  • The Hill of Illusion
  • A Second-Rate Woman
  • Only a Subaltern

• Wee Willie Winkie, and other stories (1888) (transcription project)
  • Wee Willie Winkie
  • Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
  • His Majesty the King
  • The Drums of the Fore and Aft

• Life's Handicap, Being Stories of Mine Own People (1891) (transcription project)
  • The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney
  • The Courting of Dinah Shadd
  • On Greenhow Hill
  • The Man Who Was
  • The Head of the District
  • Without Benefit of Clergy
  • At the End of the Passage
  • The Mutiny of the Mavericks
  • The Mark of the Beast
  • The Return of Imray
  • Namgay Doola
  • The Lang Men o' Larut
  • Bertran and Bimi
  • Reingelder and the German Flag
  • The Wandering Jew
  • Through the Fire
  • The Finances of the Gods
  • The Amir's Homily
  • Jews in Shushan
  • The Limitations of Pambé Serang
  • Little Tobrah
  • Moti Guj—Mutineer
  • Bubbling Well Road
  • The City of Dreadful Night
  • Georgie Porgie
  • Naboth
  • The Dream of Duncan Parrenness

• Many Inventions (1893) (transcription project)
  • The Disturber of Traffic
  • A Conference of the Powers
  • My Lord the Elephant
  • One View of the Question
  • 'The Finest Story in the World'
  • His Private Honour
  • A Matter of Fact
  • The Lost Legion
  • In the Rukh
  • 'Brugglesmith'
  • 'Love-o'-Women'
  • The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot
  • Judson and the Empire
  • The Children of the Zodiac

• The Jungle Book (1894)
  • Mowgli's Brothers, 1894
  • Kaa's Hunting, 1894
  • Tiger! Tiger!, 1894
  • The White Seal, 1893
  • Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, 1893
  • Toomai of the Elephants, 1893
  • Her Majesty's Servants, 1894
• The Second Jungle Book (1895) [external scan]
  • How Fear Came, 1894
  • The Miracle of Purun Bhagat, 1894
  • Letting In the Jungle, 1894
  • The Undertakers, 1894
  • The King's Ankus, 1895
  • Quiquern, 1895
  • Red Dog, 1895
  • The Spring Running, 1895
• The Day's Work (1898) (transcription project)
  • The Bridge-Builders
  • A Walking Delegate
  • The Ship that Found Herself
  • The Tomb of his Ancestors
  • The Devil and the Deep Sea
  • William the Conqueror
  • .007
  • The Maltese Cat
  • "Bread upon the Waters"
  • An Error in the Fourth Dimension
  • My Sunday at Home
  • The Brushwood Boy
• Stalky & Co.(1908)
  • 'In Ambush', 1898
  • Slaves of the Lamp. Part I, 1897
  • An Unsavoury Interlude, 1899
  • The Impressionists, 1899
  • The Moral Reformers, 1899
  • A Little Prep., 1899
  • The Flag of their Country, 1899
  • The Last Term, 1899
  • Slaves of the Lamp. Part II, 1897
• Just So Stories (1902)
  • How the Whale Got His Throat, 1897
  • How the Camel Got His Hump, 1898
  • How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, 1898
  • How the Leopard Got His Spots, 1901
  • The Elephant's Child, 1900
  • The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, 1900
  • The Beginning of the Armadillos, 1900
  • How the First Letter Was Written, 1901
  • How the Alphabet Was Made, 1902
  • The Crab That Played with the Sea, 1902
  • The Cat That Walked by Himself, 1902
  • The Butterfly That Stamped, 1902
  • The Tabu Tale, 1903
• Traffics and Discoveries (1904)
  • The Captive, 1902
  • The Bonds of Discipline, 1903
  • A Sahibs' War, 1901
  • "Their Lawful Occasions", 1903
  • The Comprehension of Private Copper, 1902
  • Steam Tactics, 1902
  • "Wireless", 1902
  • The Army of a Dream, 1904
  • "They", 1904
  • Mrs. Bathurst, 1904
  • Below the Mill Dam, 1902
• Puck of Pook's Hill (1906)
  • edition illustrated by H. R. Millar (transcription project)
  • edition illustrated by Arthur Rackham (transcription project)
• Actions and Reactions, 1909
• Abaft the Funnel (1909)
• Rewards and Fairies (1910)
  • Cold Iron, 1909
  • Gloriana, 1909
  • The Wrong Thing, 1909
  • Marklake Witches, 1910
  • The Knife and the Naked Chalk, 1909
  • Brother Square-Toes, 1910
  • "A Priest in Spite of Himself", 1910
  • The Conversion of St. Wilfrid, 1910
  • A Doctor of Medicine, 1909
  • Simple Simon, 1910
  • The Tree of Justice, 1910

• The Eyes of Asia (1917)

• The Complete Stalky & Co. (1929)
  • "Stalky", 1898
  • 'In Ambush', 1898
  • Slaves of the Lamp. Part I, 1897
  • An Unsavoury Interlude, 1899
  • The Impressionists, 1899
  • The Moral Reformers, 1899
  • The United Idolaters, 1924 (external scan)
  • Regulus, 1917
  • A Little Prep., 1899
  • The Flag of their Country, 1899
  • The Propagation of Knowledge, 1926
  • The Satisfaction of a Gentleman, 1929
  • The Last Term, 1899
  • Slaves of the Lamp. Part II, 1897
• A Diversity of Creatures , 1917
  • As Easy as A.B.C.
  • MacDonough's Song
  • Friendly Brook
  • The Land
  • In the Same Boat
  • 'Helen all Alone'
  • The Honours of War [Stalky & Co. story]
  • The Children
  • The Dog Hervey
  • The Comforters
  • The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat
  • The Press
  • In the Presence
  • Jobson's Amen
  • Regulus [ Stalky & Co. story]
  • A Translation
  • The Edge of the Evening
  • Rebirth
  • The Horse Marines
  • The Legend of Mirth
  • 'My Son's Wife'
  • The Floods
  • The Fabulists
  • The Vortex
  • The Song of Seven Cities
  • 'Swept and Garnished'
  • Mary Postgate
  • The Beginnings
• Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides (British/Indian edition 1919, British edition 1923, American edition 1923 under the title Land and Sea Tales for Boys and Girls) (external scan)
  • Winning the Victoria Cross, 1897
  • The Way That He Took, 1900
  • An Unqualified Pilot, 1895
  • The Junk and the Dhow
  • His Gift
  • The Master-Cook
  • A Flight of Fact, 1918
  • "Stalky", 1898
  • The Hour of the Angel
  • The Burning of the Sarah Sands, 1898
  • The Last Lap
  • The Parable of Boy Jones, 1910
  • A Departure
  • The Bold 'Prentice, 1895
  • The Nurses
  • The Son of His Father, 1893
  • An English School, 1893
  • A Counting-Out Song
• Debits and Credits, a 1926 collection that includes a number of earlier stories
  • The Enemies to Each Other, 1924 (external scan)
  • The Changelings
  • Sea Constables: A Tale of '15, 1915
  • The Vineyard
  • 'Banquet Night'
  • "In the Interests of the Brethren", 1918
  • To the Companions (Horace, Ode 17, Bk. v.)
  • The United Idolaters, 1924 (external scan)
  • The Centaurs
  • 'Late Came the God'
  • The Wish House, 1924
  • Rahere
  • The Survival (Horace, Ode 22, Bk. v.)
  • The Janeites, 1924 (external scan)
  • Jane's Marriage
  • The Portent (Horace, Ode 20, Bk. v.)
  • The Prophet and the Country, 1924 (external scan)
  • Gow's Watch: Act IV. Sc. 4
  • The Bull That Thought, 1924 (external scan)
  • Alnaschar and the Oxen
  • Gipsy Vans
  • A Madonna of the Trenches, 1924 (external scan)
  • Gow's Watch: Act V. Sc. 3
  • The Birthright
  • The Propagation of Knowledge, 1926
  • The Legend of Truth
  • A Friend of the Family, 1924 (external scan)
  • We and They
  • On the Gate: A Tale of ’16, 1926
  • The Supports
  • Untimely
  • The Eye of Allah, 1926
  • The Last Ode: Nov. 27, B.C. 8 (Horace, Ode31, Bk. v.)
  • The Gardener, 1925
  • The Burden
• Thy Servant a Dog (1930)
• Limits and Renewals (1932)

Individual short stories

• Aunt Ellen, 1932
• Beauty Spots, 1932
• Bitters Neat, 1887
• The Church That Was at Antioch, 1929
• Dayspring Mishandled, 1928
• A Deal in Cotton, 1907
• The Debt, 1930
• The Edge of the Evening, 1913
• The Enlightenments of Pagett, M.P., 1890 (external scan)
• The Eyes of Asia, 1917
• Fairy-Kist, 1927
• Friendly Brook, 1914
• Garm — a Hostage, 1899
• The Great Play Hunt, 1930
• An Habitation Enforced, 1905
• Ham and the Porcupine, 1935
• Haunted Subalterns, 1887
• His Majesty the King, 1888
• The Horse Marines, 1911
• The House Surgeon, 1909
• In the Presence, 1912
• In the Same Boat, 1911
• The Last Relief, 1891
• The Legs of Sister Ursula, in The Idler, vol 3, 1893
• Little Foxes, 1909
• The Manner of Men, 1930
• The Miracle of Saint Jubanus, 1930
• The Mother Hive, 1908
• Mrs. Hauksbee Sits Out, 1890
• My Personal Experience with a Lion, 1902
• "My Son's Wife", 1917
• A Naval Mutiny, 1931
• Of Those Called, 1889
• The Pit That They Digged, 1889
• The Puzzler, 1906
• The Satisfaction of a Gentleman, 1929
• A Sea Dog, 1934
• Teem — a Treasure-Hunter, 1935
• The Tender Achilles, 1929
• Thy Servant a Dog, 1930
• The Tie, 1932
• Toby Dog, 1930
• A Tour of Inspection, 1904
• The Track of a Lie, 1888
• Uncovenanted Mercies, 1932
• Unprofessional, 1930
• The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat, 1917
• The Vortex, 1914
• With the Night Mail, 1905
• The Woman in His Life, 1928
• The Wreck of the Visigoth, 1889

Other

• A Fleet in Being: Notes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron (1898) (transcription project)
• From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel (1899)
• Speech at the Mansion House, London, on January 27, 1915, in Great Speeches of the War (1915)
• 1932 Royal Christmas Message
• Something of Myself for My Friends Known and Unknown (1937) - autobiography.
• "The Heritage," in The Empire and the century (pp. 1−2), London: John Murray (1905)
• Independence: Rectorial address delivered at St Andrews October 10 1923 (1924)

As translator

• Q. Horati Flacci Carminum librum quintum (1921), by Quintus Horatius Flaccus, co-translated with Charles Larcom Graves
  • Ode I.
  • Ode VI.
  • Ode XIII.

Transcription projects

• Rudyard Kipling's verse - Inclusive Edition 1885-1918

Works not yet in the public domain

• Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides (1923)
• Debits and Credits (1926)
• The Muse Among the Motors (1904–1929) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2025
• Limits and Renewals (1932) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2028
• Twenty-one Tales (1946) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2042

Parodies of Kipling

• A Ballad by Guy Wetmore Carryl
• Stories Three by Bret Harte
• P.C., X, 36 by Max Beerbohm

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.

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