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Sadakichi Hartmann: Why I Love Thee?
Why I love thee?
Ask why the seawind wanders,
Why the shore is aflush with the tide,
Why the moon through heaven meanders;
Like seafaring ships that ride
On a sullen, motionless deep;
Why the seabirds are fluttering the strand
Where the waves sing themselves to sleep
And starshine lives in the curves of the sand!
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Carl Sadakichi Hartmann, born in the late 1860s in Japan, was a dramatist, fiction writer, and art critic. His poetry collections include Naked Ghosts: Four Poems (1925); Tanka and Haiku: 14 Japanese Rhythms (1915), and My Rubaiyat (1913). He died in November 1944.
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Love the music of this poem
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I have never heard of this poet. This short poem says it all in so few words. Must find out more.
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What a lovely moment, that poem! That second line is so perfect.
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This poet is new to me, but when I stumbled on his work on the internet, I thought it should be shared.
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