What Peter Mark Roget Read
Books, volumes, tomes, tracts, treatises,
texts, publications, pages, paragraphs,
passages, phrases, papers, portfolios,
periodicals, opuscules, opuses, pamphlets,
leaflets, lists, letters, epistles,
correspondence, post cards, missives,
messages, manuscripts, magazines,
circulars, lexicons, concordances,
grammars, primers, manuals, alamancs,
encylopediae, dictionaries, references,
records, reports, statements, summaries,
sections, sentences, syllables—
words marshalled in subdivisions,
grouped, organized, classified,
compiled, catalogued, befriended.