Answer:
Six letters do my name compound; among the aged oft I'm found; The shepherd also by the brook hears me when Leaning on his crook; but in the middle me divide and take the half on either side each backward read a liquor tell ev'ry gay toper knows it well.
I tremble at each breath of air, and yet can heaviest burdens bear. What am I?
I am an insect half of my name is another insect. I am similar to the name of a famous band.
I am the kind of food monkey likes and people slip on me and fall in cartoons.
The 8 of us go forth and not back to protect our king from a foe's attack. What am I?
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.