"Why I Love Thee?" by Sadakichi Hartmann

[View this email on a browser]( [Forward to a friend]( [facebook-icon]( [tumblr-icon]( [twitter-icon]( April 20, 2019 [Why I Love Thee?]( [Sadakichi Hartmann]( 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! [Like this on Facebook]( [Share via Twitter]( This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on April 20, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets ["Why I Love Thee?" by Hartmann]( About This Poem “Why I Love Thee?” was self-published in Drifting Flowers of the Sea and Other Poems (1904). [Sadakichi Hartmann]( Carl Sadakichi Hartmann was born on November 8, 1867, in Nagasaki, Japan. His books include Naked Ghosts: Four Poems (Fantasia, 1925) and Tanka and Haiku: 14 Japanese Rhythms (G. Bruno, 1915), among others. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, on November 21, 1944. [more-at-poets]( [Tanka and Haikai: Japanese Rhythms]( Poetry by Hartmann [Tanka and Haikai: Japanese Rhythms]( (Trieste, 2018) "Wild Nights—Wild Nights! (249)" by Emily Dickinson [read-more]( "Bei Hennef" by D. H. Lawrence [read-more]( "How Like the Sea" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox [read-more]( April Guest Editor: Tracy K. Smith Thanks to [Tracy K. Smith](, poet laureate of the United States and author of Wade in the Water (Graywolf Press, 2019), who curated Poem-a-Day for this month’s weekdays. Read a [Q&A with Smith]( about her curatorial approach this month and find out more about our [guest editors for the year.]( [make a one-time donation]( [Small-Blue-RGB-poets.org-Logo]( Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit [Poets.org](. You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click [here](. © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038