10 of the Best Robert Herrick Poems Everyone Should Read

20 de Fevereiro de 2017, 16:05, por O LADO ESCURO DA LUA

The finest poems of the Cavalier poet

Algernon Charles Swinburne called Robert Herrick (1591-1674) the ‘greatest songwriter ever born of English race’. In this post, we’ve chosen ten of Robert Herrick’s best poems, most of which are beautifully short lyrics about a number of themes, from religion to love to untidy clothes. We hope you enjoy this pick of the finest Herrick poems.

‘To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time’. The poem’s message is straightforward: Herrick is addressing ‘the virgins’. This provides another clue as to what he is driving at. Herrick tells the young to enjoy themselves before their youth and beauty fade. And yet encouraging a load of young people who haven’t had sex yet has never been couched in such delightful verse as Herrick deploys here. This is one of the best ‘seize the day’ poems in English – and probably the most famous.

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Why Governments Are Trying to Clamp Down on Bitcoin

20 de Fevereiro de 2017, 16:04, por O LADO ESCURO DA LUA

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Source: The International Forecaster, by James Corbett

We all know the old dictum: “If you can’t beat them, join them!” Well, governments have their own version: “If you can’t beat them, use your jackbooted thugs to go out and steal their idea and outlaw all competition.”

Case in point: bitcoin. As I pointed out in my Tech Trends for 2017 editorial, bitcoin regulation is going to be one of the dominant themes of the year. Indeed, that prediction has (unfortunately) already come true, with the EU Council proposing the registration of all bitcoin users under the guise of “anti-terrorism” legislation and the IRS’ legal pursuit of information on all Coinbase users continuing to play out in the courts.

But just check the newswire on any given day and you’ll see any number of government regulators looking to get their regulatory mitts on the cryptocurrency:

Japan’s new regulation regime for…

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