Lorick: Riddles and Lore

Does Lorick #152 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

he's a guardian who never asks why

...likes a bone and a nice lullaby

he has multiple heads;

keeps the live from the dead...

his a labour not many would try!

Hint:

steady there... who's a good boy?

Lorick #151:

he's a guardian who never asks why

...likes a bone and a nice lullaby

he has multiple heads;

keeps the live from the dead...

his a labour not many would try!

But first, we solve #152 - here it is one last time:

every lifespan's a treasure

one we'll stretch and then measure -

weird judges, we three

that live by THE tree -

without malice dispensing displeasure

Does Lorick #151 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

every lifespan's a treasure

one we'll stretch and then measure -

weird judges, we three

that live by THE tree -

without malice dispensing displeasure

Hint:

we are not what you seek if you think we are Greek

Lorick #151, to confound and confusticate!

every lifespan's a treasure

one we'll stretch and then measure -

weird judges, we three

that live by THE tree -

without malice dispensing displeasure

Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #150:

my man needs his courage to stick!

once begun, we must murder, and quick...

but this guilty expression

fuels my sanguine obsession -

Oh! Beware what's foretold by a witch!

Does Lorick #150 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

my man needs his courage to stick!

once begun, we must murder, and quick...

but this guilty expression

fuels my sanguine obsession -

Oh! Beware what's foretold by a witch!

Hint:

my tale's full of Scots... and indelible blots!

Lorick #149:

my man needs his courage to stick!

once begun, we must murder, and quick...

but this guilty expression

fuels my sanguine obsession -

Oh! Beware what's foretold by a witch!

But first, we solve #150 - here it is one last time:

I'm cheaper to pay than to fight

my terror put Romans to flight

a warlord, ahorse,

an unstoppable force

...'till I died on my own wedding night

Does Lorick #149 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

I'm cheaper to pay than to fight

my terror put Romans to flight

a warlord, ahorse,

an unstoppable force

...'till I died on my own wedding night

Hint:

My tribal sobriquet? Means nothing, I'd say

Lorick #148:

I'm cheaper to pay than to fight

my terror put Romans to flight

a warlord, ahorse,

an unstoppable force

...'till I died on my own wedding night

But first, we solve #149 - here it is one last time:

By Hera! Ensorcelled by Eros!

Gave up all in exchange for a promise!

_I_, the cause of their strife?!

_I_, who should be his wife??!?

Beware, fool, this wrongéd enchantress!

Does Lorick #148 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!

By Hera! Ensorcelled by Eros!

Gave up all in exchange for a promise!

_I_, the cause of their strife?!

_I_, who should be his wife??!?

Beware, fool, this wrongéd enchantress!