The Billy Lids

My habitation's in a wood,
And I'm at anyone's command.
I often do more harm than good;
If once I get the upper hand,
I never fear a champion's frown;
Stout things I often times have done;
Brave soldiers, I can fell them down,
I never fear their sword nor gun.

A Beer Barrel.

What is greater than God,
More evil than the devil,
The poor have it,
The rich need it,
And if you eat it, you'll die?

Nothing

Lighter than what I am made of,
More of me is hidden than is seen,
I am the bane of the mariner,
A tooth within the sea.
Speak my name.

Ice

A spirited jig it dances bright,
Banishing all but darkest night.
Give it food and it will live;
Give it water and it will die.

Fire

The life I lead is mere hours or less,
I serve all my time by being consumed.
I am quickest when thin, slowest when fat,
And wind is the bane of the gift that I bring.

Candle

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Close to the words of life stay I,
But I wither, wane, and grow dry.

A Bible-pressed leaf, or flower.

I do not breathe, but I run and jump.
I do not eat, but I swim and stretch.
I do not drink, but I sleep and stand.
I do not think, but I grow and play.
I do not see, but you see me every day.

I am a leg.

Always wax, yet always wane: I melt, succumbéd to the flame.
Lighting darkness, with fate unblest, I soon devolve to shapeless mess.

A Candle.

With potent, flowery words speak I,
Of something common, vulgar, dry;
I weave webs of pedantic prose,
In effort to befuddle those,
Who think I wile time away,
In lofty things, above all day
The common kind that linger where
Monadic beings live and fare;
Practical I may not be,
But life, it seems, is full of me!

A riddler, or riddle.

To you, rude would I never be,
Though I flag my tongue for all to see.

A dog.

I welcome the day with a show of light,
I steathily came here in the night.
I bathe the earthy stuff at dawn,
But by the noon, alas! I'm gone.

The morning dew.

Here there is no north, west, nor east,
And weather fit for not man nor beast.

The North Pole.

Large as a mountain, small as a pea,
Endlessly swimming in a waterless sea.

Asteroids.

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At night they come without being fetched,
And by day they are lost without being stolen.

The Stars

I never was, am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will
And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.

Tomorrow

Runs over fields and woods all day
Under the bed at night sits not alone,
With long tongue hanging out,
A-waiting for a bone.

A shoe.

The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place.

The letter E.

There was a green house.
Inside the green house there was a white house
Inside the white house there was a red house.
Inside the red house there were lots of babies.

A Watermelon.

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When is a door not a door?

When it's a jar.

The big moron and the little moron were standing on the bridge over the river. The big moron fell off. How come the little moron didn't fall off too?

Because he was a little more on.

The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?

A Coffin.

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In a tunnel of darkness lies a beast of iron. It can only attack when pulled back. What is it?

A Bullet.

Walk on the living, they don't even mumble. Walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble. What are they?

Fallen Leaves.

I am emeralds and diamonds, lost by the moon,
I am found by the sun and picked up soon. What am I?

Dew.

With no wings I fly, With no eyes, I see. With no arms, I climb.
More frightening than any beast, stronger than any foe.
I am cunning, ruthless, and tall. I rule all. What am I?

The imagination of man and woman.

Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came sweetness.

Samson and a lion got in attack, And Samson climbed up on the lion's back.
Well, you've read about lion killin' men with their paws,
But Samson put his hands round the lion's jaws!
He rode that lion 'till the beast fell dead,
And the bees made honey in the lion's head.

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No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?

Silence.

Feed me and I live. Give me to drink and I die. What am I?

Fire.

I pass before the sun yet make no shadow. What am I?

Wind.

This is as light as a feather, yet no man can hold it for long. What is it?

One's breath.

If you break me, I'll not stop working. If you can touch me, my work is done. If you lose me, you must find me with a ring soon after. What am I?

The human heart.

We are very little creatures;
all of us have different features.
One of us in glass is set,
One of us you'll find in jet,
Another you may see in tin,
And a fourth is boxed within.
If the fifth you should pursue,
It can never fly from you.
What are we?

A,E,I,O,U. Vowels.

Where may you find roads without cars, forests without trees, rivers without water, and cities withou houses?

On a map.

I have a hundred legs but cannot stand, a long neck but no head; I ease the maid's life. What am I?

A broom.

Cannot be seen, cannot be felt, cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind the stars and beneath the hills, ends life and kills laughter. What is it? The dark.

This thing runs but cannot walk,
Sometimes sings but never talks.
Lacks arms, has hands;
Lacks a head but has a face.
What is it?

A clock.

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What is the difference between a grandmother and a granary?

One is one's born kin, the other is one's corn-bin.

What is the difference between a cat and a complex sentence?

A cat has claws at the end of its paws, and a complex sentence has a pause at the end of its clause.

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, and has a head but never sleeps?

A river.

What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs at night?

A human being, who crawls on hands and knees in babyhood, who walks on two legs during adulthood, and who goes about with the help of a cane in old age.

What builds up castles, tears down mountains, makes some blind and helps others to see?

Sand.

What lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its roots upward?

An icicle.

What has eyes yet cannot see?

Needles, Storms, Potatoes, A true lover.

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