Answer:
A beacon from home to guide your way. It can be a lifesaver on a stormy day. What is it?
This is needed both for courage and hardcover books.
Just head and foot yet never tires of dancing.
I pass before the sun, but make no shadow.
I am a span of time you can always see through I am also the timepiece with the most pieces. What am I?
Black we are and much admired. Many seek us if they are tired. We tire the horse, and comfort man, and turn White when we've fulfilled your plan.