The Turkish and Persian poems of the witty poet Basîrî, together with Hüsameddin's account of him as a man of Amasya and the anthology records.
The witty poet Basîrî, who came from Herat to Istanbul: his Turkish and Persian verse, his jests, Hüsameddin's account of him as a man of Amasya, and his surviving poems.
The ghazal that opens Basîrî's Turkish poems: a lover befriended by gazelles like Majnun, mountains that moan with his cries, and the black day brought by locks that hide the face.
Basîrî's ghazal on the lover left neither well nor sick: rose and bud, the morning breeze jealous of the poet who kissed the beloved's footprint, and a lesson that maddens the wise.
Basîrî's ghazal on the refrain "itmez": a mouth that takes the lover's soul and denies it, cruelty worse than a rival's, fortune that withholds the beloved and eyes scattering pearls.
Basîrî's ghazal counting the calamities stirred up by the beloved's down and mole: lost patience and strength, untold arrow wounds, a sigh that rings the sky's bowl and the last soul.
Basîrî's ghazal on the refrain "variken": a lover who never leaves the shade of his cypress-tall master, burns like rue seed in the fire and prefers love's counsel to the counsellor's.
Basîrî's ghazal of the free-spirited rind: a heart burning with the night's candles, company in the tavern with those who lost all, a prayer for incurable pain and blame chosen over safety.
Basîrî's ghazal with the refrain "see": the lover who shows Leylâ in the beloved and Majnun in himself, lips with the Messiah's breath and a Sufi close calling the eye of insight awake.
Basîrî's ghazal woven from common sayings: a rival like a dog that swallowed a needle, a physician who gives headaches, a justified nightingale and a Majnun no counsel can cure.
Basîrî's ghazal on the lover caught between friend and foe: squirrel fur of furnace ash, a hut of sorrows lit by sighs, the tavern of unity and a frenzy that would make Majnun sane.
Basîrî's ghazal on the refrain "on seeing": a pale face in saffron, tears in blood, a gardener who loses hope, a heart running to the sword's water and a madman under the moon.
Basîrî's ghazal that counts the beloved's torments as favours: a realm of being grown narrow, a sky that gives poison for cure, grief on Majnun's throne and a poem that burns the divan.
Basîrî's ghazal with the refrain "a rose is enough", opening with his most quoted couplet: a proverb about the gnostic, roses of bloody tears, and the readings "half" and "my beloved".
Basîrî's ghazal that opens with two wishes: to see the beloved and not the rival, an Indian mole stranded in Rum, a helpless physician, an all-tongue nightingale and a world-burning sigh.
Basîrî's ghazal that opens with a prayer: an alif stature and madda brow in the Qur'an of beauty, eyelashes damming a flood of tears, Khidr's life in a breath and felt over a royal robe.
Basîrî's ghazal on the refrain "people": the poet as master of love, a market crowd beating their breasts for Joseph, the damned warmed by his sigh and zünnar-wearers girding for him.
Basîrî's ghazal on the refrain "the one who does": a beloved drinking with the rival, liver's blood from the eye's goblet, a torn cloak of patience and a flood from the heart's oven.
Basîrî's ghazal whose opening couplet Âşık Çelebi also quotes: a sorcerer's arrow and bow, a cheek the sun envies, a ney that cannot keep up and sun and moon bowing as to Joseph.
Basîrî's ghazal that makes the lover the elder of love in the lodge of pain: torn skirt and collar, brands like Solomon's seal, a sigh for a staff and coral beads of blood.
Basîrî's ghazal built on Nevruz: a feast that comes to all but the lover, a square where tears keep the dust down, a sigh that lights the night and a poet burning like a candle.
Basîrî's ghazal on the refrain "knows": the beloved as shah of the heart, a sun-face only sun and moon can know, guests lodged in the lover's eye and speech only the wakeful grasp.
Basîrî's ghazal in which the world that is a rose garden to others is a prison to him: a rosary of bloody tears, a cry against the infidel eye and a kiss priced at a soul.
Basîrî's ghazal on the refrain "you made": a lip flushed with wine, a rā-shaped brow bending the lover into a nūn, Shirin's lips, Leyla's locks and an eye woken from the sleep of mischief.
Basîrî's ghazal in the hafif metre: a wheel that fills the eye with tears, a street that is a mosque, an eye turned astrolabe, the cheering wine of the lip and liver kebab on lash skewers.
Basîrî's ghazal that opens with a proverb: a straight cypress no harm can touch, a curl that is the cīm of cemāl, a map of beauty from China to Damascus and gazelles not won by ghazals.
Basîrî's ghazal of a lover made for affliction: a house of pain with eyes for windows, a heart like a madman in the bath-furnace and a needle forged from an arrowhead to sew the wound.
Basîrî's ghazal on the lover's frailty: bones turned into a letter, a tongue of flame in the oven of grief, a body no one can tell from its trace and a black eye that assays silver tears.
Basîrî's ghazal on the refrain "our": a tulip-faced beauty, the sky's goblet of sorrow, a suit for blood against the beloved, moans heard as music and a pun on al, ala and almak.
Basîrî's ghazal on the refrain "efendi": the plain complaint of a servant who answers curses with prayers, finds no faith even in life and longs for a greeting from his master.
Basîrî's ghazal in the short hafîf metre: a lover with no star to see the sun-faced beloved, and a self-praising close that claims to have borrowed nothing from any divan.
Basîrî's ghazal asking for the alms of beauty: a lover begging a kiss, a heart longing to be a moth, a burnt body even dogs refuse and a breast turned into an archery range.
Basîrî's ghazal on the refrain "both": a poet disgraced by love, nightingale and moth, mansion and ruin grown narrow, the ascetic's snare and a tavern full of God's light.
Basîrî's ghazal that opens the language of the tavern to Sufism: an owl of the ruin whose huma of aspiration nests on the Sidra, a coffin of vine branches, devotion to the tavern elder.
Basîrî's ghazal that makes the beloved's street a Mount Sinai: God's light in the Friend's face, Paradise refused without her, Leyla's locks, a sugar-chewing lip and the passion of curls.
Basîrî's ghazal that makes the beloved king of beauty: a sun that bows before her, a golden face rubbed on the touchstone, the calligrapher who erased Majnun and a kiss as halva money.
Basîrî's ghazal on the refrain "were there not": ney and wine as companions, no union without parting as no spring without winter, Majnun's encampment and the scroll of life.
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