Rebel Verses

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Rebel Verses

by Bernard Gilbert

EN·~47 minutes·35 chapters

Chapters

35 total
1

The Rebel

0:38
2

Song of Revolt

0:55
3

There Aint no God

0:33
4

'The Night is Dark'

3:04
5

Return

0:36
6

Nietzsche

1:17
7

Sacrament

0:56
8

Fightin' Tomlinson

1:49
9

The Labourers' Hymn

1:27
10

Oliver Cromwell

2:34

Description

A fierce, lyrical manifesto opens the work, letting a self‑declared rebel speak in rhythmic bursts about music, poetry, and an unyielding hunger for intellectual freedom. The narrator shuns dogma and allies with workers, strikers and the marginalized, demanding a world where crowns crumble and the chorus of revolt swells. The language swings between raw proclamation and vivid imagery, turning political slogans into verses that pulse like a marching drum.

As the poem widens its scope, it interrogates the complacency of empires and the silence of the privileged, urging a collective awakening. Historical references mingle with personal lament, while the speaker confronts doubt, faith, and the looming specter of apathy. By the close of the opening, listeners are drawn into a charged atmosphere where the fight is as much spiritual as it is social, setting the stage for a journey through rebellion, hope, and the quest for a liberated conscience.

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Language

en

Duration

~47 minutes (45K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by David E. Brown, Bryan Ness, Matthew Wheaton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2011-07-20

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

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Bernard Gilbert

1882–1927

A vivid voice of rural Lincolnshire, he wrote poems, novels, plays, and essays that captured village life, local speech, and the social tensions of early 20th-century England. Though largely forgotten today, his work has been praised by later scholars as a rich record of countryside life and change.

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