Dramatic Lyrics is a book of English poems written by Robert Browning. It was first published in 1842 as the third book in a series called Bells and Pomegranates, which Browning published himself. This book is best known for including the poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin for the first time. It also has several other well-known poems by Browning, such as My Last Duchess, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, Porphyria's Lover, and Johannes Agricola in Meditation.

Contents

The original titles that Robert Browning used for the poems in this collection, as well as for the poems in his later collection Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, were changed in later editions of his collected works. Because this book was first published in a very small print run by Browning himself, the poems are now always known by their later titles. The poems were written between 1836 (possibly as early as late 1835) and 1842.