Robert Browning wrote poetry.
Robert Browning . The collection Dramatis Personae and the book-length epic poem The Ring and the Book followed , and made him a leading British poet . His most popular poems include Porphyria 's Lover , How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix , the diptych Meeting at Night , the patriotic Home Thoughts from Abroad , and the children 's poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin .