Adlî's five-couplet ghazal rhyming in "-âm": a full moon drunk on its own lip's wine, the unripe fruit of union, hyacinth and pepper as slaves, and at last the hope of a greeting.
The inkwell is an ignoramus full of ink, and the pen that dips into it daily never learns its secret; a market of fancy and a brimming cup in a dream share the ghazal.
The naat opening the te ghazals: the Prophet described by Quran, Gospel, Psalms and Torah, the Quran as miracle, a sun lighting the motes, the jewel of the verse and words that are a decree.
A time of transition in five couplets: Mehmed Çelebi's death is hidden for forty-one days, the physician Gûrdüzen makes the dead man stroke his beard, and Murad is awaited.
The book's last poem: a work promising grace to the reader and love to the traveller, holding a ready answer for the denier, and ending “Read Âdâbü'l-müeddeb”.
Münîrî's Persian ghazal on "ne-bāşed": a heart that knows no love has lost its way, the open eye sees beauty in every mote, and paradise without the beloved consoles fools.
Adlî's five-couplet ghazal: drowned in tears, the lover can no longer tell his sea from his land, and in the end gives up crown and throne, counting his sighs' flame a golden crown.
A ghazal spoken wholly by the beloved and called a response to Nâbî: the lovers' quince and "alas", linen that outlasts the moon, and musk whose heart turns to blood.
Praise of a heart that serves the tavern elder: servanthood above kingship, leaving tomorrow to God, advice to make a name good or bad, the passing cup and a sweet moment.
Music for a new reign: Murad takes the throne at Bursa and, once Mehmed Çelebi's body is seen, the lords of İzmir and Menteşe stir and are calmed by envoys.
Münîrî's Persian ghazal on "ne-şod": one who never dwelt in the tavern knows not its secret, an unruined heart cannot hold the treasure, and the moth never leaves the flame.
Adlî's seven-couplet ghazal: the fire of separation outdoes Hell, the beloved is the one pearl in the world's oyster shell, and the poet names himself an old servant at that shah's door.
Bent double under separation, the lover reaches the last sitting of his prayer; the principles and branches of law, a heavy-turbaned ascetic and a sun rising in the west.
A ghazal inviting the zealot to the tavern: a call sounded from the tavern, the turning circle, a paradise without vision as prison, the astronomer's lecture room and the word "illet".
İzmiroğlu is warned in four couplets: the Pretender Mustafa wins over Rumelia, and Bayezid Paşa, after kissing his hand, is put to death at Sazlıdere.
Münîrî's Persian ghazal on "sūzed": a rose cheek burns the rose and tulip, beside the dry the wet burns too, and the fire of love sets even the lancet in the vein alight.
Adlî's five-couplet ghazal with the refrain "itdüm": a body bent like the crescent, grief's dust on the heart's tablet, a body trampled into dust, and love between death and revival.
No one looks for a mihrab in the courtyard of the Kaaba; Sâhib carries this point of law to the kiss, and his refrain "neylersin" weighs the shadow against the real thing.
Four couplets, opening missing in the edition: the beloved's place of ascension unreachable without a guide, a veiled bud, wine in the eye's cup and a kiss worth a thousand souls.
On lying: Mihaloğlu, freed from prison in Tokat, takes the author along from the Elvan Çelebi tekke, and a forged letter makes the Pretender and İzmiroğlu flee.
Münîrî's eleven-couplet Persian response to Hâfız opens with news of union, passes from the rose season to autumn and closes with a prayer praising Sultan Bayezid's face.
Adlî's ghazal with the refrain "benüm", preserved only in the T manuscript: furnace and rose garden, friend and enemy, and a closing couplet built on the old idiom of adoption.
A hair-fine waist is likened to the Sirat bridge of the Last Day; the February of separation, the Nevruz of union, and a beloved at the head of a banquet of lips.
Deed, salvation and merit carried into the tavern: the rind's deed, Lât and Menât in the breast, the tavern of steadfastness, the wine of constancy and a soul given to the cup.
A prayer in Murad's voice, four couplets long: the Pretender bribes the kadı of Biga to cross, hauls the Gallipoli ships ashore, and Murad is held up at Lapseki.
Münîrî's Persian response to Hâfız: tears flow as they did before, the beloved's image rules the land of the heart, and not even death changes the lover's sorrow.
Adlî's ghazal preserved only in the T manuscript, whose second couplet Sehî gives to Hadîdî: lashes like drawn swords, drunken eyes wrecking a glass shop, a lip reflected as a cup.
Let the wind not hear the sigh, the boxwood not hear a stature praised, the ascetic not learn the taste of good wine: every couplet asks that something stay hidden.
A ghazal saying "do not linger in Rûm, set out for Baghdad": the city of Hâlid-i Bağdâdî and of Fuzûlî, guidance in the tavern, making a name, and a pun on wakefulness and cruelty.
A false prince's end: Murad crosses to Rumelia from Ece Ovası on an infidel ship, and the Pretender Mustafa flees Edirne, is caught and hanged from a tower there.
Münîrî's Persian ghazal on "şeved": every mote of one who turns to dust on the beloved's path becomes a sun, and beside the ruby lip Khidr's water is a mirage.
Adlî's ghazal with the refrain "sevmezin": a lover who rebukes those who will not love, the ascetic and God's light, dust like an elixir, and a beggar driven from the door.
The beloved who lights a fire in the oven of the heart is a Janissary's son, may his hearth never lack; cotton in a wound, a foot that is a cup, taverns shut for Ramadan.
The first ghazal of Câfer Çelebi's divan: five couplets that define the lover as one who yields to the beloved's will, carry an image of smoke and end with God's pleasure.
A ghazal of hope with the refrain "elbet": a rose-red rider who will come, the crowned hoopoe bringing news, the patience taught by the sura of Joseph, the breeze and the hunter of fortune.
Pacts and raids: with Murad settled at Edirne, envoys go to the Serbian despot and the tekfur of Constantinople, and Evrenezoğlu and Firuz Beg are sent raiding.
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