Riddles

Riddles are a challenge for the brain when it
comes to learning English, as a riddle is a complicated word puzzle
which you first read and then try to solve.

Reading English riddles is a great way to
understand and learn about the deeper meanings of the English language
and test your intelligence at the same time.

Try to solve the riddles below first and then check your answers.

What am I?

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

What am I?

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.

What am I?

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!

What am I?

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

What am I?

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.