Rebel Verses


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Mr. Bernard Gilbert is one of the discoveries of the War. For years, it seems, he has been writing poetry, but it is only recently that an inapprehensive country has awakened to the fact. Now he is taking his rightful place among our foremost singers. What William Barnes was to Dorset, what T. E. Brown was to the Manx people—this is Mr. Gilbert to the folk of his native county of Lincoln. He has interpreted their lives, their sorrows, their aspirations, with a surprising fidelity. Mr. Gilbert never loses his grip upon realities. One feels that he knows the men of whom he writes in their most intimate moods; knows, too, their defects, which he does not shrink from recording. There is little of the dreamy idealism of the South in the peasant people of Lincolnshire. The outwardly respectable chapel-goer who asks himself, in a moment of introspection

But why not have a good time here?
Why should the Devil have all the beer?

is true to type. But he has, too, his softer moods. Fidelity in friendship, courage, resource and perseverance—these are typical of the men of the Fens. - Summary by The New Witness, 1918 (1 hr 15 min)

Chapters

The Rebel 1:13 Read by Jason in Panama
Song of Revolt 1:55 Read by Bruce Kachuk
There aint no God 1:05 Read by Glennie Junkin
The Night is Dark 5:46 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Return 1:31 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Nietzsche 2:08 Read by Jason in Panama
Sacrament 1:51 Read by Eva Davis
Fightin' Tomlinson 2:59 Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
The Labourer's Hymn 2:03 Read by Eva Davis
Oliver Cromwell 4:15 Read by Eva Davis
Anywhere but Here 1:10 Read by phxtopdog
East Wind 2:56 Read by phxtopdog
Peter Wray 2:10 Read by phxtopdog
Oh Fools 1:44 Read by Larry Wilson
Elfin Dancer 2:48 Read by phxtopdog
A. G. Webster 1:05 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Oh to be Home 2:03 Read by Jude
Give Soldiers a Vote 1:12 Read by Jude
Alone 2:52 Read by Larry Wilson
Flesh of our Flesh 1:07 Read by Larry Wilson
This Town is Hell 2:10 Read by phxtopdog
Timberland Bells 1:08 Read by phxtopdog
Dame Peach 2:04 Read by phxtopdog
Friends 1:51 Read by Jude
Charing Cross 1:19 Read by Jude
Love not too Much 1:31 Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Machiavelli 1:43 Read by Jason in Panama
Remorse 0:44 Read by Larry Wilson
The Mandrake's Horrid Scream 3:58 Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
One Day 1:07 Read by Larry Wilson
No Wife 4:43 Read by Glennie Junkin
To an Old Friend 2:12 Read by Eva Davis
Is it Finished 1:13 Read by Larry Wilson
Oh Lincoln, City of my Dreams 1:18 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Fool 4:08 Read by Kalynda