This table lists Kipling’s published and unpublished poems by date order of first publication. For poems that were not published by Kipling, and recovered from his Notebooks by Andrew Rutherford in “Early Verse by Rudyard Kipling” (Oxford 1986), we have drawn on Rutherford’s judgment of when a poem was in its final form, or on further research by Professor Tom Pinney in the Cambridge Edition. See our detailed notes on each poem.
For the publishing dates, we have generally relied on the 2010 Bibliography by David Alan Richards, together with the Cambridge Edition of The Poetry of Rudyard Kipling edited by Thomas Pinney, published in 2013.
| TITLE | WHERE PUBLISHED | DATE |
| An Auto da Fé | Notebook 3 | Nov 2 1881 |
| An Amateur | MS | 1881-1882 (?) |
| Brighton Beach | Sundry Phansies | 1882 |
| Les Amours Faciles | Notebook 1 | Feb 2 1882 |
| Ave Imperatrix | USC Chronicle | Mar 20 1882 |
| After the Promise | Notebooks 1 & 3 | Mar 29 1882 |
| After the Fever(1882) | Notebook 1 | May 1882 |
| The Attainment | Notebook 1 | May 28 1882 |
| “The Battle of Assaye” | USC Chronicle | Jul 2 1882 |
| Les Amours de Voyage | Notebook 1 | Oct 20 1882 |
| As far as the East is set from the West | Notebook 1 | Nov 1882 |
| At the End of a Year | MS | Dec 1883 |
| A Beleaguered City | Civil and Military Gazette | Jan 28 1884 |
| Amour de Voyage | Echoes by two writers | Jul 1884 |
| The Ballad of the King’s Daughter | Echoes by two writers | Jul 1884 |
| An American | Pall Mall Gazette | Oct 20 1884 |
| Appropriate Verses | Echoes by two Writers | Oct 1884 |
| The Boar of the Year | USC Chronicle | Oct 390 1884 |
| After the Fever | Pioneer | Jun 22 1885 |
| A Ballad of Bitterness | MS | Dec 1885 |
| The Ballad of East and West | Pioneer | Dec 2 1889 |
| At the Distance | Quartette | Dec 19 1885 |
| The Ballad of Ahmed Shah | Indian Planters Gazette | 1886 ? |
| Army Headquarters | Civil and Military Gazette | Feb 9 1886 |
| Arithmetic on the Frontier | Departmental Diryes (1st) | Jun 1886 |
| A Ballad of Burial | Departmental Ditties (2nd) | Sep 1886 |
| A Ballade of Jakko Hill | Departmental Ditties (2nd) | Sep 1886 |
| At the Bar | Civil and Military Gazette | Oct 9 1886 |
| By Honours | Civil and Military Gazette | Feb 22 1887 |
| A Budget Estimate | Civil and Military Gazette | Mar 31 1887 |
| “Au Revoir” | Civil and Military Gazette | Aug 12 1887 |
| Blue Roses | Civil and Military Gazette | Aug 16 1887 |
| A Ballade of Bad Entertainment | The Week’s News | Feb 1 1888 |
| “Between the gum pot and the shears” | MS | Mar 1888 |
| The Ballad of Fisher’s Boarding House | The Week’s News | Mar 3 1888 |
| “And some are sulky…” | Plain Tales from the Hills | Mar 5 1888 |
| By the Hoof of the Wild Goat | Plain Tales from the Hills | Mar 5 1888 |
| As the Bell Clinks | Departmental Ditties (3rd) | Apr 1888 |
| Bombastes Furioso | Pioneer | Apr 16 1888 |
| The Betrothed | Pioneer | Nov 21 1888 |
| Alnaschar | Civil and Military Gazette | Nov 23 1888 |
| A Ballade of Photographs | MS | 1889 |
| “A Ballade of Indian Tea” | MS | Sep 1889 |
| The Ballad of the King’s Mercy | New York Tribune | Nov 10 1889 |
| The Ballad of the King’s Jest | Mancmillan’s Magazine | Feb 1890 |
| The Ballad of the Red Earl | St James Gazette | Mar 5 1890 |
| The Ballad of the ‘Clampherdown’ | St James Gazette | Mar 25 1890 |
| “Before my Spring” | Maclillan’s Magazine | Jun 1890 |
| Belts | Scots Observer | Jul 26 1890 |
| The Bell Buoy | Saturday Review | Dec 1890 |
| The Blind Bug | National Observer | Dec 21 1890 |
| “The beasts are very wise…” | Beast and Man in Indoia | May 1891 |
| “Between the waving tufts…” | Beast and Man in India | May 1891 |
| The Ballad of the ‘Bolivar’ | St James Gazette | Jan 29 1892 |
| “Beat off ?” | The Naulahka | Jun 23 1892 |
| “Because I sought it” | The Naulahka | Jun 23 1892 |
| “Beware the man” | The Naulahka | Jun 23 1892 |
| Buddha at Kamakura | The Times | Jul 2 1892 |
| The Answer | Century Magazine | Nov 1892 |
| Anchor Song | Many Inventions | May 31 1893 |
| ‘Bobs’ | Pall Mall Gazette | Dec 1893 |
| “At the hole where he went in…” | The Jungle Book | May 22 1894 |
| “Back to the Army again” | Pall Mall Gazette | Aug 1894 |
| “Birds of Prey” March | Pall Mall Gazette | May 30 1895 |
| Angutivaun Taina | McClore’s Magazone | Nov 1895 |
| Bill ‘Awkins | The Seven Seas | Seo 9 1896 |
| An Almanac of Twelve Sports | London for Christmas | Dec 1897 |
| All the World over … | Daily Mail | Apr 27 1900 |
| The Absent-minded Beggar | Daily Mail | Oct 31 1900 |
| Bridge-Guard in the Karroo | The Times | Jun 5 1901 |
| The Burial | The Times | Apr 9 1902 |
| The Ballad of Boh Da Thone | Barrack Room Ballads | Sep 17 1902 |
| Boots | The Five Nations | Sep 1903 |
| The Broken Men | The Five Nations | Sep 1903 |
| The Advertisement | Daily Mail | Feb 5 1904 |
| The Braggart | Dai;y Mail | Feb 9 1904 |
| The Beginner | Dai;y Mail | Feb 21 1904 |
| Butterflies | Traffics and Discoveries | Oct 4 1904 |
| The Bee Boy’s Song | Puck of Pook’s Hill | Oct 2 1906 |
| A British-Roman Song | Puck of Pook’s Hill | Oct 2 1906 |
| A Boy Scout’s Patrol Song | London Standard | Sep 16 1909 |
| The Bees and the Flies | Actions and Reactions | Oct 5 1909 |
| The Buttercup | MS | 1910 |
| An Astrologer’s Song | Rewards and Failries | Oct 4 1910 |
| The Ballad of Minepit Shaw | Rewards and Fairies | Oct 4 1910 |
| Brookland Road | Rewards and Fairies | Oct 4 1910 |
| The American Rebellion | A History of England | Jul 15 1911 |
| The Anvil | A History of England | Jul 15 1911 |
| The Bells and Queen Victoria | A History of England | Jul 15 1911 |
| Big Steamers | A History of England | Jul 15 1911 |
| “Brown Bess” | A History of England | Jul 15 1911 |
| The Benefactors | The Years Between | Apr 10 1919 |
| The Bother | The Years Between | Apr 10 1919 |
| Azrael’s Count | Land and Sea Tales | Nov 15 1923 |
| The Burden | McCall’s Magazine | April 1926 |
| Alnaschar and the Oxen | Debits and Credits | Sep 15 1926 |
| “Banquet Night” | Debits and Credits | Sep 15 1926 |
| The Beginnings | Debits and Credits | Sep 15 1926 |
| The Birthright | Debits and Credits | Sep 15 1926 |
| Arterial | Poems 1886-1929 | Dec 10 1929 |
| The Ballad of the Cars | Poems 1886-1929 | Dec 10 1929 |
| Akbar’s Bridge | Limits and Renewals | Apr 7 1932 |
| At his Execution | Limits and Renewals | Apr 7 1932 |
| The Bonfires | Morning Post | Nov 13 1933 |
| The Appeal | Definitive Verse | Dec 10 1940 |