
The Rebel
Song of Revolt
There Aint no God
'The Night is Dark'
Return
Nietzsche
Sacrament
Fightin' Tomlinson
The Labourers' Hymn
Oliver Cromwell
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 Historical references mingle with personal lament, while the speaker confronts doubt, faith, and the looming specter of apathy.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.
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.
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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