Works of Rudyard Kipling
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Books

  • The City of Dreadful Night (1885, short story)
  • Departmental Ditties (1886, poetry)
  • Plain Tales from the Hills
    Plain Tales from the Hills
    Plain Tales from the Hills is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India, between November 1886 and June 1887...

    (1888)
  • Soldiers Three
    Soldiers Three
    Soldiers Three is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The three soldiers of the title are Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, who had also appeared previously in the collection Plain Tales from the Hills...

    (1888)
  • The Story of the Gadsbys
    The Story of the Gadsbys
    The Story of the Gadsbys is a story by Rudyard Kipling. It was originally published as no. 2 of the Indian Railway Library in 1888. The Story of the Gadsbys is written in dramatic form, consisting of eight short scenes...

    (1888)
  • In Black and White
    In Black and White (Kipling Stories)
    In Black and White is a collection of eight short stories by Rudyard Kipling which was first published in a booklet of 108 pages as no. 3 of A H Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library in 1888. It was subsequently published in a book along with nos 1 and 2, Soldiers Three and The Story of the...

    (1888)
  • Under the Deodars
    Under the Deodars
    Under the Deodars is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling.-The Education of Otis Yeere:Mrs. Hauksbee decides to start a salon in Simla, but Mrs. Mallowe talks her out of it. She then explains to Mrs. Hauksbee that she's experiencing a mid-life crisis and that she came out of her own by...

    (1888)
  • The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales
    The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales
    The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling.-The Phantom 'Rickshaw:After an affair with a Mrs. Agnes Keith-Wessington in Simla, the narrator, Jack, repudiates her and eventually becomes engaged to Miss Kitty Mannering. Yet Mrs...

    (1888)
This collection contained the short story The Man Who Would Be King
The Man Who Would Be King
For the 1975 film based on this story, see The Man Who Would Be King "The Man Who Would Be King" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It is about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan...

  • Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories
    Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories
    Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling.-Wee Willie Winkie:Percival William Williams, who is affectionately called 'Wee Willie Winkie' because of the nursery rhyme, is the only son of the Colonel of the 195th. He makes good friends with a...

    (1888)
This collection contained the short story Baa Baa, Black Sheep
  • Life's Handicap (1891)
  • American Notes (1891, non-fiction)
  • Barrack-Room Ballads
    Barrack-Room Ballads
    The Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses are a set of martial songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling originally published in two parts: the first set in 1892, the second in 1896...

    (1892, poetry)
  • Many Inventions (1893)
  • The Jungle Book
    The Jungle Book
    The Jungle Book is a collection of stories by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–4. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six...

    (1894)
    • "Mowgli's Brothers
      Mowgli's Brothers
      "Mowgli's Brothers" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. Chronologically it is the first story about Mowgli although it was written after "In the Rukh" in which Mowgli appears as an adult.The story first appeared in the January 1894 issue of St...

      " (M) (short story)
    • "Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack" (poem)
    • "Kaa's Hunting
      Kaa's Hunting
      "Kaa's Hunting" is an 1893 short story by Rudyard Kipling featuring Mowgli. Chronologically the story falls between the first and second halves of Mowgli's Brothers, and is the second story in The Jungle Book where it is accompanied by the poem "Road Song of the Bandar-log".-Story:The...

      " (M) (short story)
    • "Road-Song of the Bandar-Log" (poem)
    • "Tiger! Tiger!
      Tiger! Tiger! (Rudyard Kipling)
      "Tiger! Tiger!" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. A direct sequel to "Mowgli's Brothers", it was published in magazines in 1893–94 before appearing as the third story in The Jungle Book , following "Kaa's Hunting"...

      " (M) (short story)
    • "Mowgli's Song That He Sang at the Council Rock When He Danced on Shere Khan's Hide" (poem)
    • "The White Seal" (short story)
    • "Lukannon" (poem)
    • "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
      Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
      Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a short story in The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a valiant young mongoose.The story is notable for its frightening and serious tone. It has often been anthologised and has also been published more than once as a short book in its own right...

      " (short story)
    • "Darzee's Chaunt (Sung in Honour of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi)" (poem)
    • "Toomai of the Elephants" (short story)
    • "Shiv and the Grasshopper (The Song That Toomai's Mother Sang to the Baby)" (poem)
    • "Her Majesty's Servants" (originally titled "Servants of the Queen") (short story)
    • "Parade-Song of the Camp Animals" (poem)
      • (M) = Mowgli
        Mowgli
        Mowgli is a fictional character from India who originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his fantasies, The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book , which also featured stories about other...

         story
  • The Second Jungle Book
    The Second Jungle Book
    The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont...

    (1895)
    • "How Fear Came" (M) (short story)
    • "The Law of the Jungle" (poem)
    • "The Miracle of Purun Bhagat" (short story)
    • "A Song of Kabir" (poem)
    • "Letting In the Jungle
      Letting In the Jungle
      "Letting In the Jungle" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling which continues Mowgli's adventures from "Mowgli's Brothers" and "Tiger! Tiger!". The story was written at Kipling's parents' home in Tisbury, Wiltshire, and is therefore the only Mowgli story not written in Vermont.It was published in the...

      " (M) (short story)
    • "Mowgli's Song Against People" (poem)
    • "The Undertakers" (short story)
    • "A Ripple Song" (poem)
    • "The King's Ankus" (M) (short story)
    • "The Song of the Little Hunter" (poem)
    • "Quiquern" (short story)
    • "'Angutivaun Taina'" (poem)
    • "Red Dog
      Red Dog (Rudyard Kipling)
      "Red Dog" is a Mowgli story by Rudyard Kipling.Written at Kipling's home in Brattleboro, Vermont between February and March 1895, it was first published as "Good Hunting: A Story of the Jungle" in The Pall Mall Gazette for July 29 and 30 1895 and McClure's Magazine for August 1895 before appearing...

      " (M) (short story)
    • "Chil's Song" (poem)
    • "The Spring Running" (M) (short story)
    • "The Outsong" (poem)
      • (M) = Mowgli
        Mowgli
        Mowgli is a fictional character from India who originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his fantasies, The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book , which also featured stories about other...

         story
  • The Naulahka - A story of West and East (1892)
  • The Seven Seas (1896, poetry)
  • The Day's Work
    The Day's Work
    The Day's Work is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1898. There are no poems included between the different stories in The Day's Work, as there are in many other of Kipling's collections....

    (1898)
  • A Fleet in Being (1898)
  • Stalky & Co.
    Stalky & Co.
    Stalky & Co. is a book published in 1899 by Rudyard Kipling, about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of linked short stories in format, with some information about the charismatic Stalky character in later life. The character Beetle, one of the main trio, is partly...

    (1899)
  • From Sea to Sea - Letters of Travel (1899, non-fiction)
  • The Five Nations (1903, poetry)
  • Just So Stories for Little Children
    Just So Stories
    The Just So Stories for Little Children were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. They are highly fantasised origin stories and are among Kipling's best known works.-Description:...

    (1902)
    • "How the Whale Got His Throat"
    • "How the Camel Got His Hump"
    • "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin"
    • "How the Leopard Got His Spots"
    • "The Elephant's Child"
    • "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo"
    • "The Beginning of the Armadillos"
    • "How the First Letter Was Written"
    • "How the Alphabet Was Made"
    • "The Crab That Played With the Sea"
    • "The Cat That Walked by Himself"
    • "The Butterfly That Stamped"
  • Traffics and Discoveries (1904)
  • With the Night Mail (1905, Science-fiction short story)
  • Puck of Pook's Hill
    Puck of Pook's Hill
    Puck of Pook's Hill is a historical fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. The stories are all narrated to two children living near Burwash, in the area of Kipling's own house Bateman's, by people...

    (1906)
  • The Brushwood Boy (1907)
  • Actions and Reactions (1909)
  • A Song of the English (1909) with W. Heath Robinson
    W. Heath Robinson
    William Heath Robinson was an English cartoonist and illustrator, best known for drawings of eccentric machines....

     (illustrator)
  • Rewards and Fairies (1910)
  • A History of England (1911, non-fiction) with Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher
  • Songs from Books (1912)
  • As Easy as A.B.C. (1912, Science-fiction short story)
  • The Fringes of the Fleet
    The Fringes of the Fleet
    The Fringes of the Fleet is a booklet written in 1916 by Rudyard Kipling . The booklet contains essays and poems that Kipling wrote about nautical subjects in World War I....

    (1915, non-fiction)
  • Sea Warfare (1916, non-fiction)
  • A Diversity of Creatures (1917)
  • The Years Between (1919, poetry)
  • Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides (1923)
  • The Irish Guards
    Irish Guards
    The Irish Guards , part of the Guards Division, is a Foot Guards regiment of the British Army.Along with the Royal Irish Regiment, it is one of the two Irish regiments remaining in the British Army. The Irish Guards recruit in Northern Ireland and the Irish neighbourhoods of major British cities...

     in the Great War
    (1923, non-fiction)
  • Debits and Credits
    Debits and Credits (Kipling)
    Debits and Credits is a collection of fourteen stories, nineteen poems and two scenes from a play by Rudyard Kipling. The collection was first published in 1926. Four of the poems are translations of odes by Horace...

    (1926)
  • A Book of Words (1928, non-fiction)
  • Thy Servant a Dog (1930)
  • Limits and Renewals (1932)
  • Tales of India: the Windermere Series (1935)
  • Something of Myself (1937, autobiography)
  • The Muse among the Motors (poetry)

Novels

  • The Light that Failed
    The Light that Failed
    The Light That Failed is a novel by Rudyard Kipling that was first published in 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan or India. The Light that Failed follows the life of Dick Heldar, a painter who...

    (1891)
  • Captains Courageous
    Captains Courageous
    Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon...

    (1896)
  • Kim
    Kim (novel)
    Kim is a picaresque novel by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co. Ltd in October 1901...

    (1901)

Collections

Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...

's works
were sometimes collected by him, sometimes he was forced into doing so by publishers of 'unauthorised
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' editions (Abaft the Funnel, From Sea to Sea, for example), and sometimes his work was never collected. The lists given below include all the collections that were acknowledged by Kipling as his own work. However, it is possible to find other works that appeared in American but not English editions, works that only appeared in the original newspaper publication, and some that only appeared in the Sussex and Burwash editions.

Fiction Collections by Kipling

Unless identified as a novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

, they are collections of short stories
Short story
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  • Quartette (1885) – with his father, mother and sister.
  • Plain Tales from the Hills
    Plain Tales from the Hills
    Plain Tales from the Hills is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India, between November 1886 and June 1887...

    (1888)
  • Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White (1888)
  • Under the Deodars
    Under the Deodars
    Under the Deodars is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling.-The Education of Otis Yeere:Mrs. Hauksbee decides to start a salon in Simla, but Mrs. Mallowe talks her out of it. She then explains to Mrs. Hauksbee that she's experiencing a mid-life crisis and that she came out of her own by...

    , The Phantom Rickshaw
    The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales
    The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling.-The Phantom 'Rickshaw:After an affair with a Mrs. Agnes Keith-Wessington in Simla, the narrator, Jack, repudiates her and eventually becomes engaged to Miss Kitty Mannering. Yet Mrs...

    , Wee Willie Winkie
    Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories
    Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling.-Wee Willie Winkie:Percival William Williams, who is affectionately called 'Wee Willie Winkie' because of the nursery rhyme, is the only son of the Colonel of the 195th. He makes good friends with a...

    (1888)
  • Life's Handicap (1891)
  • The Light that Failed
    The Light that Failed
    The Light That Failed is a novel by Rudyard Kipling that was first published in 1890 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan or India. The Light that Failed follows the life of Dick Heldar, a painter who...

    (1891) – novel
  • The Naulahka: A story of West and East (1892) – novel with Wolcott Balestier
  • Many Inventions (1893)
  • The Jungle Book
    The Jungle Book
    The Jungle Book is a collection of stories by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–4. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six...

    (1894)
  • The Second Jungle Book
    The Second Jungle Book
    The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont...

    (1895)
  • Captains Courageous
    Captains Courageous
    Captains Courageous is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon...

    (1896) – novel
  • The Day's Work (1898)
  • Stalky & Co.
    Stalky & Co.
    Stalky & Co. is a book published in 1899 by Rudyard Kipling, about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of linked short stories in format, with some information about the charismatic Stalky character in later life. The character Beetle, one of the main trio, is partly...

    (1899)
  • Kim
    Kim (novel)
    Kim is a picaresque novel by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co. Ltd in October 1901...

    (1901) – novel
  • Just So Stories
    Just So Stories
    The Just So Stories for Little Children were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. They are highly fantasised origin stories and are among Kipling's best known works.-Description:...

    (1902)
  • Traffics and Discoveries (1904)
  • Puck of Pook's Hill
    Puck of Pook's Hill
    Puck of Pook's Hill is a historical fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. The stories are all narrated to two children living near Burwash, in the area of Kipling's own house Bateman's, by people...

    (1906)
  • Actions and Reactions (1909)
  • Abaft the Funnel (1909)
  • Rewards and Fairies
    Rewards and Fairies
    Rewards and Fairies is a historical fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling published in 1910. The title comes from the poem Farewell, Rewards and Fairies by Richard Corbet. The poem is referred to by the children in the first story of the preceding book Puck of Pook's Hill...

    (1910)
  • The Eyes of Asia (1917)
  • A Diversity of Creatures (1917)
  • Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides (1923)
  • Debits and Credits
    Debits and Credits (Kipling)
    Debits and Credits is a collection of fourteen stories, nineteen poems and two scenes from a play by Rudyard Kipling. The collection was first published in 1926. Four of the poems are translations of odes by Horace...

    (1926)
  • Thy Servant a Dog (1930)
  • Limits and Renewals (1932)

Travel Collections by Kipling

  • From Sea to Sea – Letters of Travel: 1887-1889 (1899)
  • Letters of Travel: 1892-1913 (1920)
  • Souvenirs of France (1933)
  • Brazilian Sketches: 1927 (1940)

Military Collections by Kipling

  • A Fleet in Being (1898)
  • France at War (1915)
  • The New Army in Training (1915)
  • Sea Warfare (1916)
  • The War in the Mountains (1917)
  • The Graves of the Fallen (1919)
  • The Irish Guards in the Great War (1923)

Autobiography and Speeches by Kipling

  • A Book of Words (1928)
  • Something of Myself (1937)
  • Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words (2008) ed. Thomas Pinney, ELT Press

Poetry Collections by Kipling

  • Schoolboy Lyrics (1881)
  • Echoes (1884) – with his sister, Alice (‘Trix’)
  • Departmental Ditties (1886)
  • Barrack-Room Ballads
    Barrack-Room Ballads
    The Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses are a set of martial songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling originally published in two parts: the first set in 1892, the second in 1896...

    (1890)
  • The Seven Seas (1896)
  • An Almanac of Twelve Sports (1898, with illustrations by William Nicholson
    William Nicholson (artist)
    Sir William Newzam Prior Nicholson was an English painter of still-life, landscape and portraits, also known for his work as a wood-engraver, illustrator, author of children's books and designer for the theatre....

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  • The Five Nations (1903)
  • Collected Verse (1907)
  • Songs from Books (1912)
  • The Years Between (1919)
  • Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Definitive edition
    Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Definitive edition
    The Definitive Edition of the verse of Rudyard Kipling was published in 1940 in London by Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd and in Edinburgh by R. R. Clark...

    (1940)

A Selection of the most complete Collected Sets

  • The Outward Bound Edition (New York), 1897-1937 – 36 volumes
  • The Edition de Luxe (London), 1897-1937 – 38 volumes
  • The Bombay Edition (London), 1913-38 – 31 volumes
  • The Sussex Edition (London), 1937-39 – 35 volumes
  • The Burwash Edition (New York), 1941 - 28 volumes


The last two of these editions include volume(s) of "Uncollected Prose".,

His own collections

Collections issued during his lifetime by the poet himself include:
  • Departmental Ditties and Other Verses, 1886.
  • Barrack Room Ballads, 1889, republished with additions at various times.
  • The Seven Seas and Further Barrack-Room Ballads, in various editions 1891-96.
  • The Five Nations, with some new and some reprinted (often revised) poems, 1903.
  • Twenty-two original 'Historical Poems' contributed to C.R.L. Fletcher's A History of England (a cheaper edition was sold as A School History of England), 1911.
  • Songs from Books, 1912.
  • The Years Between, 1919.

Posthumous Collections

Posthumous collections of Rudyard Kipling's poems include:
  • Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Definitive edition
    Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Definitive edition
    The Definitive Edition of the verse of Rudyard Kipling was published in 1940 in London by Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd and in Edinburgh by R. R. Clark...

    .
  • A Choice of Kipling's Verse, edited by T.S.Eliot.
  • Early verse by Rudyard Kipling, 1879-1889 : unpublished, uncollected, and rarely collected poems, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1986.

Individual poems

Some of Kipling's many poems are:
  • "The Absent-Minded Beggar
    The Absent-Minded Beggar
    "The Absent-Minded Beggar" is an 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling, set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan and often accompanied by an illustration by Richard Caton Woodville. The song was written as part of an appeal by the Daily Mail to raise money for soldiers fighting in the South African War and...

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  • "The Advertisement"
  • "An American"
  • "The American Rebellion"
  • "Anchor Song"
  • "Angutivaun Taina"
  • "The Answer"
  • "The Anvil"
  • "Arithmetic On the Frontier"
  • "Army Headquarters"
  • "Arterial"
  • "As the Bell Clinks"
  • "An Astrologer's Song"
  • "At His Execution"
  • "Azrael's Count"
  • "Back to the Army Again"
  • "The Ballad of Boh Da Thone"
  • "The Ballad of Bolivar"
  • "A Ballad of Burial"
  • "The Ballad Of the Cars"
  • "The Ballad of the "Clampherdown""
  • "The Ballad of East and West
    The Ballad of East and West
    The Ballad of East and West is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1889, and has been much collected and anthologised since. Its first line is often quoted, sometimes as an example of Kipling's attitudes to race and to the Empire; but those who quote it thus often completely miss...

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  • "Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-House"
  • "A Ballad of Jakko Hill"
  • "The Ballad of the King's Jest"
  • "The Ballad of the King's Mercy"
  • "The Ballad of Minepit Shaw"
  • "The Ballad of the Red Earl"
  • "Banquet Night"
  • "Beast and Man in India"
  • "The Bee-Boy's Song"
  • "The Bees and Flies"
  • "Before a Midnight Breaks in Storm"
  • "The Beginner"
  • "The Beginning"
  • "The Bells and Queen Victoria"
  • "The Bell Buoy
    The Bell Buoy
    "The Bell Buoy" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published with illustrations in Saturday Review, Christmas Supplement 1896 and then published in McClure's Magazine in February 1897 as "The Bell-Buoy", with illustrations by Oliver Herford....

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  • "The Benefactors"
  • "Belts"
  • "The Betrothed"
  • "Big Steamers
    Big Steamers
    Big Steamers is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, first published in 1911 as one of his twenty-three poems written specially for C. R. L. Fletcher's "A School History of England". It appears in the last chapter of the book...

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  • "Bill 'awkins"
  • "Birds of Prey March"
  • "The Birthright"
  • "Blue Roses"
  • "Bobs"
  • "Boots"
  • "The Bother"
  • "The Boy Scouts' Patrol Song"
  • "The Braggart"
  • "Bridge-Guard in the Karroo"
  • "A British-Roman Song"
  • "The Broken Men"
  • "Brookland Road"
  • "Brown Bess"
  • "Buddha at Kamakura"
  • "The Burden"
  • "The Burial"
  • "Butterflies"
  • "By the Hoof of the Wild Goat"
  • "Cain and Abel"
  • "The Captive"
  • "Carmen Circulare"
  • "A Carol"
  • "Cells"
  • "The Centaurs"
  • "Certain Maxims of Hafiz"
  • "The Changelings"
  • "Chant-Pagan"
  • "Chapter Headings"
  • "A Charm"
  • "The Children's Song"
  • "A Child's Garden"
  • "Cholera Camp"
  • "Christmas in India"
  • "Cities and Thrones and Powers"
  • "The City of Sleep"
  • "Cleared"
  • "The Coastwise Lights"
  • "A Code of Morals"
  • "The Coiner"
  • "Cold Iron
    Cold Iron (poem)
    Cold Iron is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling. Like many of Kipling's works, it is has a strong moral and religious message. The poem tells of a rebellion by a baron who fails, but is ultimately forgiven by his king, who turns out to be an allegory of Jesus Christ.Gold is for the mistress --...

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  • "Columns"
  • "The Comforters"
  • "The Consolations of Memory"
  • "Contradictions"
  • "The Conundrum of the Workshops"
  • "A Counting-Out Song"
  • "Covenant"
  • "The Craftsman"
  • "Cruisers"
  • "Cuckoo Song"
  • "The Cure"
  • "Dane-Geld"
  • "Danny Deever
    Danny Deever
    Danny Deever is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling, one of the first of the Barrack-Room Ballads. It received wide critical and popular acclaim, and is often regarded as one of the most significant pieces of Kipling's early verse. The poem, a ballad, describes the execution of a British soldier in...

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  • "Darzee's Chaunt"
  • "The Dawn Wind"
  • "The Day's Work"
  • "The Dead King"
  • "A Death-Bed"
  • "The Declaration of London"
  • "Dedication"
  • "A Dedication"
  • "The Deep-Sea Cables"
  • "Delilah"
  • "A Departure"
  • "The Derelict"
  • "The Destroyers"
  • "Dinah in Heaven"
  • "The Disciple"
  • "Divided Destinies"
  • "Doctors"
  • "The Dove of Dacca"
  • "The Dutch in the Medway"
  • "The Dying Chauffeur"
  • "Eddi's Service"
  • "Edgehill Fight"
  • "The Egg-Shell"
  • "En-Dor"
  • "England's Answer"
  • "The English Flag"
  • "The 'eathen"
  • "Evarra and His Gods"
  • "The Expert"
  • "The Explanation"
  • "The Explorer"
  • "The Fabulists"
  • "The Fairies' Siege"
  • "The Fall of Jock Gillespie"
  • "Farewell and adieu..."
  • "Fastness"
  • "The Feet Of the Young Men"
  • "The Female of the Species"
  • "The Fires"
  • "The First Chantey"
  • "The Flight"
  • "The Floods"
  • "The Flowers"
  • "Follow Me 'ome"
  • "For All We Have And Are"
  • "Ford O'Kabul River"
  • "For to Admire"
  • "The Four Angels"
  • "Four-Feet"
  • "The Four Points"
  • "Frankie's Trade"
  • "The French Wars"
  • "Fuzzy-Wuzzy
    Fuzzy-Wuzzy
    Fuzzy-Wuzzy is a poem by the English author and poet Rudyard Kipling, published in 1892 as part of Barrack Room Ballads. It describes the respect of the ordinary British soldier for the bravery of the Hadendoa warriors who fought the British army in the Sudan.-Background:"Fuzzy-Wuzzy" was the term...

    "
  • "The Galley-Slave"
  • "Gallio's Song"
  • "Gehazi"
  • "General Joubert"
  • "A General Summary"
  • "Gentlemen-Rankers"
  • "Gertrude's Prayer"
  • "Gethsemane"
  • "Giffen's Debt"
  • "The Gift of Sea"
  • "The Gipsy Trail"
  • "Gipsy Vans"
  • "The Glory of the Garden"
  • "The Gods of the Copybook Headings
    The Gods of the Copybook Headings
    The Gods of the Copybook Headings is a poem published by Rudyard Kipling in 1919 that foresaw the decline of his country's empire and attributed it to a loss of the old virtues, and to a general complacency entailing that "all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins"...

    "
  • "The Grave of the Hundred Head"
  • "Great-Heart"
  • "The Greek National Anthem"
  • "Gunga Din"
  • "Half-Ballad of Waterval"
  • "Harp Song of the Dane Women"
  • "Helen All Alone"
  • "Heriot's Ford"
  • "The Heritage"
  • "The Holy War"
  • "The Hour of the Angel"
  • "The Houses"
  • "Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack"
  • "Hyaenas"
  • "Hymn Before Action
    Hymn Before Action
    Hymn Before Action is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling in 1896. It takes the form of a prayer by troops to God and to Mary on the eve of battle.-Publication history and reception:...

    "
  • "Hymn to Physical Pain"
  • "The Idiot Boy"
  • "If— "
  • "I Keep Six Honest..."
  • "An Imperial Rescript"
  • "In the Matter of One Compass"
  • "In the Neolithic Age"
  • "In Springtime"
  • "The Instructor"
  • "The Inventor"
  • "The Irish Guards"
  • "The Jacket"
  • "James I"
  • "Janes Marriage"
  • "The Jester"
  • "Jubal and Tubal Cain"
  • "The Juggler's Song"
  • "The Jungle Books"
  • "The Junk and the Dhow"
  • "Justice"
  • "The Justice's Tale"
  • "Just So Stories"
  • "Kim"
  • "The King"
  • "The Kingdom"
  • "The King's Job"
  • "The King's Task"
  • "Kitchener's School"
  • "The Ladies"
  • "Lady Geraldine's Hardship"
  • "The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief"
  • "The Land"
  • "The Landau"
  • "The Last Chantey"
  • "The Last Department"
  • "The Last Lap"
  • "The Last Ode"
  • "The Last of the Light Brigade"
  • "The Last Rhyme of True Thomas"
  • "The Last Suttee"
  • "Late Came the God"
  • "The Law of the Jungle (From The Jungle Book)"
  • "The Legend of Evil"
  • "The Legend of the Foreign Office"
  • "The Legend of Mirth"
  • "A Legend of Truth"
  • "L'envoi"
  • "L'envoi"
  • "L'envoi to "Life's Handicap"
  • "The Lesson"
  • "Lichtenberg"
  • "The Light That Failed"
  • "The Liner She's a Lady"
  • "The Long Trail"
  • "Loot"
  • "Lord Roberts"
  • "The Lost Legion"
  • "The Lovers' Litany"
  • "The Love Song of Har Dyal"
  • "The Lowestoft Boat
    The Lowestoft Boat
    "The Lowestoft Boat" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling , and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the first of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title "The Fringes of the Fleet"....

    "
  • "Lukannon"
  • "Macdonough's Song"
  • "The Man Who Could Write"
  • "Mandalay"
  • "Many Inventions"
  • "The Mare's Nest"
  • "The Married Man"
  • "The "Mary Gloster"
  • "Mary, Pity Women!"
  • "Mary's Son"
  • "The Masque of Plenty"
  • "The Master-Cook"
  • "McAndrew's Hymn"
  • "The Men That Fought at Minden"
  • "The Merchantmen"
  • "Merrow Down"
  • "Mesopotamia"
  • "Mine Sweepers
    The Sweepers
    "The Sweepers" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling , and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the fourth of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title "The Fringes of the Fleet"....

    "
  • "The Miracles"
  • "The Moon of Other Days"
  • "The Moral"
  • "Morning Song in the Jungle"
  • "The Mother-Lodge"
  • "Mother o' Mine"
  • "The Mother's Son"
  • "Mowgli's Song"
  • "Mowgli's Song Against People"
  • "Mulholland's Contract"
  • "Municipal"
  • "My Boy Jack"
  • "My Father's Chair"
  • "My Lady's Law"
  • "My New-Cut Ashlar"
  • "My Rival"
  • "The Native Born"
  • "A Nativity"
  • "Natural Theology"
  • "The Naulahka"
  • "The Necessitarian"
  • "Neighbours"
  • "The New Nighthood"
  • "Norman and Saxon"
  • "The North Sea Patrol"
  • "La Nuit Blanche"
  • "The Nursing Sister"
  • "The Old Issue"
  • "Old Mother Laidinwool"
  • "An Old Song"
  • "The Oldest Song"
  • "One Viceroy Resigns"
  • "The Only Son"
  • "Oonts"
  • "Our Fathers Also"
  • "Our Fathers of Old"
  • "The Outlaws"
  • "Outsong in the Jungle"
  • "The Overland Mail"
  • "A Pageant of Elizabeth"
  • "Pagett, M.P."
  • "The Palace"
  • "Parade-Song of the Camp-Animals"
  • "The Peace of Dives"
  • "The Penalty"
  • "Pharaoh and the Sergeant"
  • "Philadelphia"
  • "A Pict Song"
  • "A Pilgrim's Way"
  • "The Pink Dominoes"
  • "The Pirates In England"
  • "The Playmate"
  • "The Plea of the Simla Dancers"
  • "Poceidon's Law"
  • "Poor Honest Men"
  • "The Portant"
  • "Possibilities"
  • "The Post That Fitted"
  • "The Power of the Dog"
  • "The Prairie"
  • "The Prayer"
  • "The Prayer of Miriam Cohen"
  • "Prelude"
  • "A Preface"
  • "The Press"
  • "The Pro-Consuls"
  • "The Prodigal Son"
  • "The Progress of the Spark"
  • "Prophets at Home"
  • "Public Waste"
  • "Puck's Song"
  • "The Puzzler"
  • "The Queen's Men"
  • "The Question"
  • "The Rabbi's Song"
  • "Rebirth"
  • "The Recall"
  • "A Recantation"
  • "Recessional
    Recessional (poem)
    "Recessional" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, which he composed on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The poem, on the one hand, expresses pride in the British Empire, but, on the other, expresses an underlying sadness that the Empire might go the way of all previous empires...

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  • "Rector's Memory"
  • "The Reeds of Runnymede"
  • "The Reformers"
  • "The Return"
  • "The Return of the Children"
  • "The Rhyme of the Three Captains"
  • "The Rhyme of the Three Sealers"
  • "Rimini"
  • "Rimmon"
  • "A Ripple Song"
  • "The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer
    The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer
    The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer is a ritual for students about to graduate from an engineering program at a university in Canada. Participation may also be permitted for Canadian professional engineers and registered engineers-in-training who received training elsewhere. The ritual is...

    "
  • "The Rivers Tale"
  • "Road-Song of the Bandar-Log"
  • "The Roman Centurion's Song"
  • "Romulus and Remus"
  • "Route Marchin'"
  • "The Rowers"
  • "The Runes on the Weland's Sword"
  • "The Run of Downs"
  • "The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal'vin"
  • "Russia to the Pacifists"
  • "The Sacrifice of Er-Heb"
  • "Sappers"
  • "A School Song"
  • "Screw-Guns"
  • "The Sea And the Hills"
  • "Seal Lullaby"
  • "The Sea-Wife"
  • "The Second Voyage"
  • "The Secret of the Machines"
  • "Sepulchral"
  • "The Sergeant's Weddin'"
  • "A Servant When He Reigneth"
  • "Sestina of the Tramp-Royal"
  • "Settler"
  • "Seven Watchmen"
  • "Shillin' a Day"
  • "Sir Richard's Song"
  • "A Smuggler's Song"
  • "Snarleyow"
  • "Soldier an' Sailor Too"
  • "Soldier, Soldier"
  • "The Song at Cock-Crow"
  • "A Song in Storm"
  • "The Song of the Banjo"
  • "The Song of the Cities"
  • "The Song of the Dead"
  • "Song of Diego Valdez"
  • "The Song of the English"
  • "Song of the Fifth River"
  • "Song of the Galley-Slaves"
  • "A Song of Kabir"
  • "The Song of the Little Hunter"
  • "Song of the Men's Side"
  • "The Song of the Old Guard"
  • "Song of the Red War-Boat"
  • "The Song of Seven Cities"
  • "Song of Seventy Horses"
  • "The Song of the Sons"
  • "A Song of Travel"
  • "A Song of the White Men"
  • "Song of the Wise Children"
  • "The Song of the Women"
  • "The Songs of the Lathes"
  • "The Sons of Martha"
  • "South Africa"
  • "The Spies' March"
  • "A St. Helen Lullaby"
  • "The Story of Ung"
  • "The Story of Uriah"
  • "The Stranger"
  • "Study of Elevation, In Indian Ink"
  • "The Survival"
  • "Sussex"
  • "A Tale of Two Cities"
  • "Tarrant Moss"
  • "Things and the Man"
  • "Thorkild's Song"
  • "The Thousandth Man"
  • "A Three-Part Song"
  • "The Threshold"
  • "Tin Fish
    Submarines (poem)
    "Submarines" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling , and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the third of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title "The Fringes of the Fleet"....

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  • "To the City of Bombay"
  • "To the Companions"
  • "Together"
  • "To James Whitcomb Riley"
  • "To a Lady, Persuading Her to a Car"
  • "To Motorists"
  • "To T. A."
  • "The Totem"
  • "To Thomas Atkins"
  • "To the True Romance"
  • "To the Unknown Goddess"
  • "To Wolcott Balestier"
  • "Tomlinson"
  • "Tommy"
  • "The Tour"
  • "The Trade"
  • "A Translation"
  • "A Tree Song"
  • "Troopin'"
  • "The Truce of the Bear"
  • "A Truthful Song"
  • "Two Kopjes"
  • "Two Months"
  • "The Two-Sided Man"
  • "Ulster"
  • "The Undertaker's Horse"
  • "Untimely"
  • "The Vampire"
  • "The Verdicts"
  • "The Veterans"
  • "The Vineyard"
  • "The Virginity"
  • "The Wage-Slaves"
  • "The Way Through the Woods"
  • "We and They"
  • "The Wet Litany"
  • "What Happened"
  • "What the People Said"
  • "When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted"
  • "When the Great Ark"
  • "When the Jorney Was Intented To the City"
  • "When 'Omer Smote..."
  • "The Widower"
  • "White Horses"
  • "The White Man's Burden
    The White Man's Burden
    "The White Man's Burden" is a poem by the English poet Rudyard Kipling. It was originally published in the popular magazine McClure's in 1899, with the subtitle The United States and the Philippine Islands...

    "
  • "The Widow's Party"
  • "The Widow at Windsor
    The Widow at Windsor
    "The Widow at Windsor" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, part of the first set of the Barrack-Room Ballads, published in 1892.The eponymous "widow" is Queen Victoria. This poem talks about Queen Victoria and how the Empire she rules is so powerful because of the sacrifices that her soldiers make....

    "
  • "Wilful Missing"
  • "The Winners"
  • "The Wishing-Caps"
  • "With Drake in the Tropics"
  • "With Scindia to Delphi"
  • "You Mustn't Swim..."
  • "The Young British Soldier"
  • "Zion"

External links

  • Project Gutenberg
    Project Gutenberg
    Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks". Founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books...

    e-texts of Kipling's works
  • Modern English Poetry online at bartleby.com (contains "An Astrologer's Song", "The Conundrum of the Workshops", "Gunga Din", and "Return")
  • Works by Rudyard Kipling, HTML online.
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