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.