THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN AND OTHER POEMS By Robert Browning CONTENTS PAGE The Pied Piper of Hamelin 11 Hervé Riel 24 Cavalier Tunes 31 “How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix” 34 Through the Metidja to Abd-el-kadr 37 Incident of the French Camp 39 Clive 41 Muléykeh 59 Tray 68 A Tale 70 Gold Hair 75 Donald 82 The Glove 90 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The Pied Piper of Hamelin Frontispiece “‘Leave to go and see my wife, whom I call the Belle Aurore’” 30 “I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three” 34 “A rider bound on bound full galloping, nor bridle drew until he reached the mound” 39 “Hair, such a wonder of flix and floss” 75 “And full in the face of its owner flung the glove” 95 THE COMPLETE POETIC AND DRAMATIC WORKS Of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH ix PAULINE: A FRAGMENT OF A CONFESSION 1 Sonnet: "Eyes, calm beside thee, (Lady, couldst thou know!)" 11 PARACELSUS. I. Paracelsus aspires 12 II. Paracelsus attains 19 III. Paracelsus 25 IV. Paracelsus aspires 34 V. Paracelsus attains 40 STRAFFORD: A TRAGEDY 49 SORDELLO 74 PIPPA PASSES: A DRAMA 128 KING VICTOR AND KING CHARLES: A TRAGEDY 145 DRAMATIC LYRICS. Cavalier Tunes. I. Marching Along 163 II. Give a Rouse 163 III. Boot and Saddle 163 The Lost Leader 164 "How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" 164 Through the Metidja to Abd-el-Kadr 165 Nationality in Drinks 166 Garden Fancies. I. The Flower's Name 166 II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis 167 Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 167 The Laboratory 168 The Confessional 169 Cristina 169 The Lost Mistress 170 Earth's Immortalities 170 Meeting at Night 170 Parting at Morning 170 Song: "Nay but you, who do not love her" 170 A Woman's Last Word 171 Evelyn Hope 171 Love among the Ruins 171 A Lovers' Quarrel 172 Up at a Villa—Down in the City 174 A Toccata of Galuppi's 175 Old Pictures in Florence 176 "De Gustibus—" 178 Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 179 Home-Thoughts, from the Sea 179 Saul 179 My Star 184 By the Fireside 185 Any Wife to Any Husband 187 Two in the Campagna 189 Misconceptions 189 A Serenade at the Villa 189 One Way of Love 190 Another Way of Love 190 A Pretty Woman 190 Respectability 191 Love in a Life 191 Life in a Love 191 In Three Days 192 In a Year 192 Women and Roses 193 Before 193 After 194 The Guardian-Angel 194 Memorabilia 195 Popularity 195 Master Hughes of Saxe-Gotha 195 THE RETURN OF THE DRUSES 197 A BLOT IN THE 'SCUTCHEON 216 COLOMBE'S BIRTHDAY 230 DRAMATIC ROMANCES. Incident of the French Camp 251 The Patriot 251 My Last Duchess 252 Count Gismond 252 The Boy and the Angel 253 Instans Tyrannus 254 Mesmerism 255 The Glove 256 Time's Revenges 258 The Italian in England 258 The Englishman in Italy 260[vi] In a Gondola 262 Waring 264 The Twins 266 A Light Woman 267 The Last Ride Together 267 The Pied Piper of Hamelin 268 The Flight of the Duchess 271 A Grammarian's Funeral 279 The Heretic's Tragedy 280 Holy-Cross Day 281 Protus 283