Rebel Verses
Bernard Gilbert
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
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 |