Hard on the land wears the strong sea / and empty grows every bed."
One of these poems questions whether life is "a handkerchief sandwich." Another of these poems includes a character who concludes that he has no "inner resources" because he is bored. A third of these poems ends with the lines "Hard on the land wears the strong sea / and empty grows every bed." These poems include one which concludes "Nobody is ever missing" and one in which the speaker spits on a grave, part of a series of meditations about the suicide of their poet's father. They contain twelve elegies to Delmore Schwartz and feature a recurring character who speaks in blackface dialect named Mr. Bones. The first seventy-seven of these poems were published in 1964, while the remaining three hundred and eight were published in the collection His Toy, His Dream, His Rest. For 10 points, name these poems focusing on Henry, the alter ego of their author, John Berryman.
One of these poems questions whether life is "a handkerchief sandwich."
The Dream Songs