title: Pieces of America: Prose and Poetry
author: DM Seay
description: DM Seay is an itinerant writer who captures America through prose and poetry
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  Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  COPYRIGHT INFO 22
  
  
  
  
  
  A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER 23
  
  
  
  
  
  The MEGAPACK™ Ebook Series 26
  
  
  
  
  
  LEAVES OF GRASS 34
  
  
  
  
  
  BOOK I 35
  
  
  
  
  
  One’s-Self I Sing 36
  
  
  
  
  
  As I Ponder’d in Silence 37
  
  
  
  
  
  In Cabin’d Ships at Sea 38
  
  
  
  
  
  To Foreign Lands 40
  
  
  
  
  
  To a Historian 41
  
  
  
  
  
  To Thee Old Cause 42
  
  
  
  
  
  Eidolons 43
  
  
  
  
  
  For Him I Sing 47
  
  
  
  
  
  When I Read the Book 48
  
  
  
  
  
  Beginning My Studies 49
  
  
  
  
  
  Beginners 50
  
  
  
  
  
  To the States 51
  
  
  
  
  
  On Journeys Through the States 52
  
  
  
  
  
  To a Certain Cantatrice 53
  
  
  
  
  
  Me Imperturbe 54
  
  
  
  
  
  Savantism 55
  
  
  
  
  
  The Ship Starting 56
  
  
  
  
  
  I Hear America Singing 57
  
  
  
  
  
  What Place Is Besieged? 58
  
  
  
  
  
  Still Though the One I Sing 59
  
  
  
  
  
  Shut Not Your Doors 60
  
  
  
  
  
  Poets to Come 61
  
  
  
  
  
  To You 62
  
  
  
  
  
  Thou Reader 63
  
  
  
  
  
  BOOK II 64
  
  
  
  
  
  Starting from Paumanok 65
  
  
  
  
  
  BOOK III 80
  
  
  
  
  
  Song of Myself 81
  
  
  
  
  
  BOOK IV 149
  
  
  
  
  
  To the Garden the World 150
  
  
  
  
  
  From Pent-Up Aching Rivers 1