| POEM | PUBLICATION OR SOURCE | |
| Rather than this | MS | 1881? |
| Reckoning | Notebook 3 | Aug 8 1881 |
| Reading the Will | Schoolboy Lyrics | Dec 1881 |
| Requiescat in pace | Schoolboy Lyrics | Dec 1881 |
| Roses | Schoolboy Lyrics | Dec 1881 |
| A Question | Notebook 3 | Dec 25 1881 |
| Rejection | Notebook 3 | 1881 -2 ? |
| Resolve | Sundry Phansies | 1882 ? |
| Romance and Reality | USCC Chronicle | Mar 1882 |
| The Quest (1882) | Notebooks 1 and 3 | Mar 5 1882 |
| The Reaping | Notebook 1 | Jun 19 1882 |
| Quaeritur | Echoes by two writers | Jul 1884 |
| Revenge—A Ballad of the Fleeter | Pioneer | Aug 31 1885 |
| The Quid Pro Quo | Civil and Military Gazette | Jan 16 1886 |
| The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal’vin | Civil and Military Gazette | Jan 30 1886 |
| Quantities of ’em | Civil and Military Gazette | Jun 15 1887 |
| “Ride with an idle whip …” | Plain Tales from the Hills | Mar 5 1888 |
| “Rosicrucian subtleties” | Plain Tales from the Hills | Mar 5 1888 |
| The Question of Givens | Pioneer | Jan 18 1889 |
| The Rhyme of the Three Captains | The Athenaeum | Dec 6 1890 |
| Route Marchin’ | Barrack Room Ballads | Apr 27 1892 |
| The Rhyme of the Three Sealers | New York Sunday Sun | Nov 27 1892 |
| Rikki Tikki Tavi | St Nicholas Magazine | Nov 1893 |
| A Ripple Song | The New York World | Feb 8 1894 |
| Road-Song of the Bandar-Log | The Jungle Book | May 22 1894 |
| Quiquern(Heading) | Pall Mall Gazette | Oct 1895 |
| The Quest (1896) | Thr Book of Beauty | Nov 1896 |
| Recessional | The Times | Jul 11 1897 |
| “Rimini” | Strand Magazine | Jun 1900 |
| The Reformers | The Times | Oct 12 1901 |
| The Riddle | Just So Stories | Sep 30 1902 |
| Rolling Down to Rio | Just So Stories | Sep 30 1902 |
| The Rowers | The Times | Dec 22 1902 |
| The Return | The Five Nations | Sep 1903 |
| Rimmon | The Five Nations | Sep 1903 |
| The Return of the Children | Traffics and Discoveries | Oct 4 1904 |
| The Runners | Traffics and Discoveries | Oct 4 1904 |
| The Rhodes Memorial | MS | Feb 9 1905 |
| The Runes on Weland’s Sword | Puck of Pook’s Hill | Oct 2 1906 |
| Romulus and Remus | Morning Post | Mar 26 1908 |
| The Rabbi’s Song | Actions and Reactions | Oct 5 1909 |
| The Recall | Actions and Reactions | Oct 5 1909 |
| The Queen’s Men | Rewards and Fairies | Oct 4 1910 |
| The Run of the Downs | Rewards and Fairies | Oct 4 1910 |
| The Roman Centurion’s Song | Three Poems by Rudyard Kipling | Mar 1911 |
| The Reeds of Runnymede | A History of England | Jul 15 1911 |
| The River’s Tale | A History of England | Jul 15 1911 |
| The Question | US Copyright as ‘The Neutral | Nov 29 1916 |
| Rebirth | A Diversity of Creatures | Apr 17 1917 |
| A Recantation | The Years Between | Apr 10 1919 |
| Russia to the Pacifists | The Years Between | Apr 10 1919 |
| A Rector’s Memory | St Andrew’s University | May 4 1926 |
| Rahere | Debits and Credits | Sep 15 1926 |