1876.  Pacchiarotto, and other Poems
         (including Natural Magic and Herve Riel).
1877.  The Agamemnon of AEschylus.
1878.  La Saisiaz, and The Two Poets of Croisic.
1879-80.  Dramatic Idyls.
1883.  Jocoseria.
1884.  Ferishtah’s Fancies.
1887.  Parleyings with Certain People.
1890.  Asolando.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Poetical Works of Robert Browning (The Macmillan Company,
    ten vols.). 
Browning’s Complete Poetical Works, Cambridge Edition (Houghton,
    Mifflin & Co., one vol.). 
Selections from Browning (Crowell & Co., one vol.). 
Life of Browning, by William Sharp. 
Life of Browning, by Mrs. Sutherland Orr. 
Introduction to Browning, by Hiram Corson. 
Guide Book to Browning, by George Willis Cook. 
Browning Cyclopaedia, by Edward Berdoe. 
Literary Studies, by Walter Bagehot. 
Studies in Literature, by Edward Dowden. 
Makers of Literature, by George Edward Woodberry (New York, 1901). 
Boston Browning Society Papers. 
A Handbook to the Works of Robert Browning, by Mrs Sutherland Orr. 
Robert Browning:  Personalia, by Edmund Gosse. 
Life of the Spirit in Modern English Poets, by Vida D. Scudder. 
Victorian Poetry, by Edmund Clarence Stedman. 
Studies of the Mind and Art of Robert Browning, by James Fotheringham. 
Browning Society Papers. 
Our Living Poets, by H. Buxton Forman. 
Browning’s Message to his Times, by Edward Berdoe (London, 1897). 
Browning Studies, by Edward Berdoe (London, 1895). 
The Poetry of Robert Browning, by Stopford Brooke (New York, 1902). 
Browning, Poet and Man, by E.L.  Cary (New York, 1899). 
(An extensive bibliography, biographical and critical, is given in the
    Appendix to Sharp’s Life of Browning; London, Walter Scott, 1890.)

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THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN

A CHILD’S STORY
(Written for, and inscribed to W. M. the Younger)

I

Hamelin deg. town’s in Brunswick, deg.1
By famous Hanover city;
The river Weser, deep and wide,
Washes its walls on either side;
A pleasanter spot you never spied;
But, when begins my ditty,
Almost five hundred years ago,
To see the townsfolk suffer so
From vermin, was a pity.

II

Rats! 10
They fought the dogs and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cooks’ own ladles,
Split open the kegs of salted sprats. 
Made nests inside men’s Sunday hats. 
And even spoiled the women’s chats
By drowning their speaking
With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats. 20