Basîrî's ghazal in which he calls himself Majnun's blood brother and Ferhad's namesake: brigand eye and brow, letters titled "rind and kallâş" and a love revealed by one sigh.
Basîrî's ghazal with the refrain "for": ghazals recited for a painter beloved, a pun on wound and trusty companion, a head longing for the stones of the path.
Basîrî's ghazal with the refrain "I must make": bloody tears turning a saffron field into tulips, hunting the Anka with a gnat and dust veiling a sun-like face.
Basîrî's ghazal with the refrain "your": an eye become an archer's ring, a sword that drank from the fountain of life, a mole like Abraham in the fire, and a madman's chain.
Basîrî's short ghazal rhyming in "-eb": night and day made equal by separation, a pun on meşreb, a star risen beside the sun and an eye like a Chinese inkwell.
Basîrî's ghazal woven of letter similes: masters of meaning who call the curl a long lām and the mouth a short mīm, a pun on two rhetoric books, sun and moon in one face.
Basîrî's second food ghazal: a playful poem that likens the smell of kalye to the morning breeze and the leaf of salma to a rose petal, and sets paluze in the beloved's place.
Basîrî's ghazal with the refrain "to you": a cup of blood raised in the beloved's honour, a sun with no nerve to face him, a lover in the desert like Majnun and a gazelle eye.
Basîrî's food ghazal: the poet, slave of rice and dervish of kalye, flees bulgur, soup and cabbage soup in a playful poem that carries the language of love into the kitchen.
The only kaside among Basîrî's Turkish poems: nineteen couplets praising Sultan Selim Shah through the heavens, with a renewed opening and a love section, presented to Selim I.
The kıt'a Basîrî addressed to the chief judge Zeyrekoğlu, who promised a reward and gave none: a man praised as an ocean of learning who would not give even a drop beyond a promise.
Basîrî's ghazal of reproach with the refrain "you made": wounds opened one upon another, a star of fortune black as a mole, a collar of patience torn like a rose.
Basîrî's ghazal opening with a couplet quoted by the anthologies: two narcissus eyes in the garden of the cheek, a ruined heart where even thorns bear no rose, locks scented like Tatar musk.
Basîrî's first kıt'a on the kazasker Zeyrekoğlu: a short satire that needles, in a single line, the patron who gave a poet kindnesses and promises instead of a reward.
Basîrî's satire on Nasûhî, chief physician of the Edirne hospital: a two-couplet kıt'a saying that patients who drink his sherbet make a "sincere repentance" of good health.
Basîrî's single couplet likening his eyes, weeping from separation, to the Black Sea: a pun on "ayn" as eye, likeness and spring, and tears that must not resemble the sea.
Basîrî's opening couplet on the chief judge Müeyyedzâde, who refused him a post: a conceit framed as a petition for office, finding the beloved more merciless than Müeyyedzâde.
Basîrî's witty couplet likening meatballs in a hashish-eater's mouth to the cannon of the Boğaz Hisarı: double meanings of top and boğaz, and Sehî Bey's report.
Basîrî's jesting couplet dismissing the citron with a bawdy comparison when lemons and bitter oranges are at hand: a congruence of fruit names and a gathering's wit.
Basîrî's opening couplet to a tailor's son: a double entendre between a piece of the soul and a piece of cloth, the uncertain word "gök" and a lover turning round and round.
Basîrî's opening couplet quoted by Latîfî, Âşık Çelebi and Âlî: a beloved with the Messiah's breath who kills her lovers, and the pun on "kills" and "brings to life", written alike.
A couplet of praise given to Basîrî by Âlî and to Mevlânâ Emîrî by Sehî Bey: generosity that nurtures the learned, resolve that bestows bounty, and a dispute over authorship.
A ghazal of Basîrî published by Kurnaz and absent from the divan manuscript: a beloved even beauties adore, an answer to a preacher, and a poor poet who makes the melody.
A ghazal of wisdom published by Kurnaz with the refrain "is there": the fortune of needing no fortune, a lover greater than Ferhad, and a Lord who needs no statement of need.
A ghazal of supplication published by Kurnaz with the refrain "do not, O Lord": a plea to be spared hunger and need of the needy, the garment of piety and an unwanted crown.
A ghazal of Basîrî published by Kurnaz: a gardener punished for likening the cypress to the beloved, a two-faced letter and a two-tongued pen, and a lover lost to black and white.
The Persian kıt'a Basîrî left under the cushion of Müeyyedzâde, the chief judge who refused him a post: counsel on contentment and an Arabic line on God's sustenance.
Basîrî's Persian opening couplet quoted by Latîfî, Âşık Çelebi and Âlî: tears greater than the sea once the dust of the beloved's feet is gone, and two readings of "gerd".
Basîrî's Persian opening couplet quoted by Âşık Çelebi: a spring in which not one rose blooms as he wishes, the word hezâr meaning both "thousand" and "nightingale".
Basîrî's kıt'a comparing the poet Revânî's stinginess with Pinti Hamîd's: a double entendre on "revân", Qur'anic quotations and the sparring recorded in the tezkires.
Basîrî's chronogram on Süleyman's conquest of Belgrade: praise that makes the heavens the sultan's threshold, Gabriel's wordless eulogy and the line giving the year 927.
A kıt'a of uncertain authorship that Latîfî places at the start of the Basîrî and Revânî story: bringing verse to a poet is like selling cress to a gardener or pepper to India.
Basîrî's kıt'a satirizing Revânî without naming him: Pinti Hamîd, once spoken of for stinginess, is acquitted, and the guilt passes to a still greater miser.
Basîrî's satirical kıt'a on Revânî's kitchen, where the servant foams from hunger: a pun on imsâk as fasting and as stinginess, and a fast broken for a free morsel.
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