The famous ghazal that, according to Riyâzî, circulated under another Ümîdî's name but belonged to Receb Ümîdî of Merzifon: arrow lashes, bow brows, night visions and a Kaaba.
The song text the Amasya calligrapher Emnî wrote for Abdülkâdir-i Geylânî after joining the Kadiri order: a name repeated in every line and the poet's counsel to himself.
Two couplets by Eşref Abdurrahman Efendi likening the world to a garden: a gardener of time whose spring and autumn please no one and an arrow that startles the heart's bird.
The Arabic kıt‘a in İnepazarlızâde İsmâil Hakkı's treatise Müzekkiretü'l-Evkâf: of uncertain authorship, praise addressed to the Prophet or to Sultan Abdülmecid.
Two couplets surviving from Edîb of Lâdik's poems in praise of the Prophet: the edifice of the law that ruin cannot topple and a talisman-sealed treasure reason cannot open.
The only ghazal by Yeğenzâde Âsım Bey kept in Fatîn's tezkire: a rose garden, the feast of Cem, the musk of Khotan, loosened buttons and a Mecnun led by a rope.
The opening couplet of Hayâtî of Merzifon preserved by Latîfî: the rosebud tearing its collar and the rose falling to wailing at the beloved's cheek, and the gülzâr pun.
The opening couplet of Bâkî's ghazal preserved in the Merzifon Cönkü: a lover who would scatter his bloody tears like jewels on the dust of the beloved's feet.
The only ghazal attributed to Mehmed I: five couplets that ask God for help though the world be hostile, recall the four caliphs and urge never turning from the enemy.
The only surviving ghazal of the grand vizier Şirvânîzâde Mehmed Rüşdü Pasha, signed Rüşdî and kept in Fatîn's tezkire: union and separation, earth and sky made one in rapture.
Hilmî Dede's didactic ghazal asking the purpose of worldly attachment: a guest's stay of a day or two, wealth that builds no fountain or bridge, a soul given to the beloved.
Gazi Hıfzî's ghazal to a sorrowful beloved: a face like a sun that never sets, the pupil of the eye that becomes a beauty spot, and the poet urging himself to write.
Eyüb Sabrî's ghazal counting what love has taken away: the broken glass of piety, Mecnun's desert, the lover with no daylight left and Sabrî whose patience is gone.
The chronogram Hicâbî presented to Seyyid Gâlib Mehmed Pasha on his visit in 1230: name and Named, the ascents of Hallâc and Jesus, and a date drawn from the pasha's name.
Sirâcî's mütekerrir muhammes for Prince Mustafa with the redif "yansun": a wish that the sultan may regret his deed, and a calamity unknown before in the house of Osman.
Hayâlî-i Gülşenî's twenty-stanza elegy in the voice of Prince Mustafa: the refrain "what can I do, you have slain me, my sultan", and wordplay on alif and devlet.
Kâdirî's elegy for Prince Mustafa: eleven stanzas that begin as müsemmen and go on as murabba, the mourning of all creation, a stanza shared with Hasbî, and Karbala.
Selîmî's seven-stanza murabba for Prince Mustafa: the refrain "falcon among princes", a coffin in Karaman, the huma bird and a life given on the sultan's path.
Mu'înî's seventy-seven-couplet terkib-i bend for Prince Mustafa: the forged letters, the prince in white walking to the tent, a lament with the refrain dirîğ, and a chronogram.
Hasbî's elegy for Prince Mustafa: seven stanzas with the refrain "Âh Sultân Mustafâ eyvâh Sultân Mustafâ", the mourning of the universe, and a stanza shared with Kâdirî.
Nisâyî's first elegy for Prince Mustafa: a reproach to the sultan in the refrain "O pitiless shah", the poisoned cup, the allusion to Hallâc-ı Mansûr and the two Mustafas.
Sâmî's seven-stanza muaşşer for Prince Mustafa: the refrain "what became of Mustafa, what have you done, O my sultan", a jibe at the pen name Muhibbî, and innocence.
Müdâmî's elegy for Prince Mustafa: seven stanzas with the refrain "he obeyed the shah and sacrificed his head and life", Joseph, Job and Jacob, and a mother's mourning.
Edirneli Nazmî's fifty-couplet terkib-i bend for Prince Mustafa: the pun on time and wind, a mourning without reproach, and a prayer for long life for Bayezid and Selim.
Rahmî of Bursa's five-stanza terkib-i bend for Prince Mustafa: transience, the treasury sealed with a cord, the image of Karbala, and a closing stanza of prayer for the sultan.
Fünûnî's elegy for Prince Mustafa: reproach of the heavens, the "deceitful woman" double meaning, the death scene from the march to Karaman to the tent, and the sultan.
Two couplets by Senâyî kept by Kınalızâde: a lip whose trace even the geomancer-astrologer cannot find, and the people of love who keep naming the beloved even when beheaded.
Two couplets by Zamânî preserved by Âşık Çelebi: a heart fallen into the chain of locks and the well of the chin, and onlookers who mistake the lover leading his rivals for a segban.
A Persian couplet by Nakkaş Şahkulu under the pen name Penâhî: a painter's boast that belittles the legendary Mânî and claims to be the true Mânî who unveils meanings.
Three couplets of a ghazal by Melîhî preserved by Latîfî: the heart cursing the eye, the beloved's face read through the suras of Light and Smoke, and variants in the tezkires.
The ghazal with the refrain "ne ‘aceb" that Nigârî wrote in a carriage on his way into exile from Merzifon: reproach for a saviour who never came, prophets' stories and a final repentance.
The seven-stanza müseddes Gelibolulu Mustafa Âlî wrote as sanjak governor of Amasya: the complaints of a poet who likens himself to a falcon, and a refrain praising Amasya.
Nelmî's ghazal with the refrain "etdim seni", written extempore when he fell in love with his teacher's son: a lover who claims the beloved's beauty as his own work.
The only surviving couplet of Abdürrahîm-i Rûmî, Zeyniyye sheikh of Merzifon: a plain prayer of repentance for errors committed knowingly and unknowingly, built on antithesis.
The ghazal Makâmî sent to Mihrî Hatun at Prince Ahmed's court in Amasya: sun and moon, a lock like the sultan's nişancı, a pun on mihr and Mihrî, and her reply.
Seyfî of Sinop's ghazal with the refrain "your eyebrow", kept in three tezkires: a brow drawn like a bow, lashes as arrows and a brow bent double for love of an eye.
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