A Turk of Cathay raiding the land of the heart, a tavern boy's lip that drove Jesus from the old church, the robe of piety thrown on the fire, and Cem's cup taken from the royal treasury.
The last ghazal of the main manuscript: a soul-bird perched on the eye, the cage of the breast, the breath of the ney, lashes blocking the way, and calling her "my soul".
The only quatrain in the main manuscript: a heart wounded by the arrow of grief, a lover undone by the thought of lashes, and grief that tears his collar to shreds, in four lines.
The quatrain of a lover who does not want to be freed from love's pain: two couplets praying "may God not save me from this pain nor stop my tears".
A two-stanza murabba from the Pervâne Bey Mecmuası: a piece unlike any other in the divan, calling the beloved by name, "my life, my Hasan Bâlî", and naming him a maker of caps.
Three couplets left from an incomplete ghazal: a lover chained by the beloved's locks who prays never to be freed, a soul made for many pains, and tears and breast-fire joining forces.
Three couplets of disputed authorship, given to Mehmed II by Âşık Çelebi and others but to Bayezid II by Latîfî: the dagger of reproach, the shears of grief, the angels' prayer.
A Persian response to Hafez's famous "Turk of Shiraz": a sultan's couplet saying that if that Frankish infidel takes our heart, he will give Istanbul and Galata for his Indian mole.
A one-couplet threat against the Karamanid lord: "That man of Karaman, they say, talks of sovereignty with us; if God gives the chance, I will mingle him with the black earth."
The only Arabic couplet in the divan: two lines recorded in Ali Emîrî's Cevâhirü'l-Mülûk, lamenting with two cries of "alas" a departure with no return and longing for friends.
A single couplet printed without a source: the bewilderment of a lover who asks whether there is no justice in the making of the world, or whether he is still not worthy of mercy.
A single couplet taken from the Tezkire of Rızâ: the beloved sets foot in the garden of peace to make merry, but the lover's joy does not last and the season of autumn soon arrives.
An opening couplet recorded without a source in Ali Emîrî's Cevâhirü'l-Mülûk: a lover who, since the pain of love is his companion, wants no other faithful beloved.
A single line that Mehmed II spoke and left unfinished, which twenty poets of his age, and later eight more, completed into couplets with second lines of their own: a court game.
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