Answer:
Dark, feathery, and popular in Baltimore and fantasy books.
What is that which, while it lives, constantly changes its habit, that is buried before it is dead, and whose tomb is valued wherever it is found?
It's black and every time it speaks it says its name.
I'm carried by mad animals. What am I?
What asks but never answers?
I hold two meanings. With one I may be broken, with the other I hold on. What am I?