Robert Browning worked as a poet.
Robert Browning . Unusually for a poet , societies for the study of his work were founded while he was still alive . 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 .