Answer:
I am a king who's good at measuring stuff. What am I?
I am a pretty one, fluttering in the pale blue sky. Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing. What am I?
I have a head and a tail but my eyes can never see my tail.
you cannot keep me until you have given me
I am a word. I become longer when the third letter is removed.
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.