Dramatic Lyrics

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Dramatic Lyrics is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1842 as the second volume in a series of self-published books entitled Bells and Pomegranates. It is most famous as the first appearance of Browning's poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin, but also contains several of the poet's other best-known pieces, including My Last Duchess, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, Porphyria's Lover, and Johannes Agricola in Meditation.

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Many of the original titles given by Browning to the poems in this collection, as with its "follow-up" collection Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, are different from the ones he later gave them in various editions of his collected works. Since this book was originally self-published in a very small edition, these poems really only came to prominence in the later collections, and so the later titles are given here; see the bottom of the page for a list of the originals.

Cavalier Tunes:
- Marching Along
- Give a Rouse
- Boot and Saddle
My Last Duchess
Count Gismond
Incident of the French Camp
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
In a Gondola
Artemis Prologuizes
Waring
Rudel to the Lady of Tripoli
Cristina
Johannes Agricola in Meditation
Porphyria’s Lover
Through the Metidja to Abd-El-Kadr
The Pied Piper of Hamelin

[edit] First Edition Titles

Cavalier Tunes; I. Marching Along; II. Give a Rouse; III. My Wife Gertrude (`Boot and Saddle').
Italy and France; I. Italy; II. France.
Camp and Cloister; I. Camp (French); II. Cloister (Spanish).
In a Gondola.
Artemis Prologuizes.
Waring; I.; II.
Queen-worship; I. Rudel and The Lady of Tripoli; II. Cristina.
Madhouse Cells; I. (Johannes Agricola.); II. (Porphyria.)
Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr, 1842.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin; a Child's Story.