The silver net : Poems by Louis Vintras
The silver net by Louis Vintras is a collection of lyric and dramatic poems written in the early 20th century. It lyrically explores love and desire, spiritual struggle, guilt and death, and the seductive pull of fame and illusion through vivid, symbolist imagery. Across visionary tableaux and intimate vignettes, the poems move from ships ferrying the dead and a rake confronted by the ghost of his lost child to lovers who kindle
light against surrounding darkness. Sacred presences arise within nature—the lily becoming the Virgin, the rose the suffering Christ—while Magdalene’s shame softens into tenderness and a beggar is revealed as the living Christ at a church’s threshold. Desire appears both ravishing and ruinous: the glamour of Ishtar, a young bride bartered to wealth, cousins comparing a faithless suitor, and a palace of temptations whose inner chamber—ruled by Fame and Fortune—rests upon the bodies of the fallen. History and myth shadow the present, from Arthur’s disillusion to a murderer’s returning guilt in a remembered Assyrian life. Between city nocturnes and river idylls, the voice returns to a single theme: human aspirations that dazzle and betray, yet a hope that redemption flickers in humility, love, and the God within clay. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Vintras, Louis, 1864-1934 |
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| Title | The silver net : Poems |
| Original Publication | London: Unicorn, 1903. |
| Credits | Aaron Adrignola, Terry Jeffress, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | English poetry -- 20th century |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77120 |
| Release Date | Oct 25, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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