Mustafa Vâzıh's moral couplet holding a servant's mountainous faults lighter than a master's reproach for favours done, matched by an Arabic couplet.
The lover is shut in the six-gate block of grief, and every throw comes up calamity; beside this backgammon couplet the ghazal also jokes about buying with face and coin.
A Sufi at the rinds' gathering meets a poet not quenched by a hundred cups; the order of the suras Tebbet and İhlâs becomes a joke, and the preacher is offered fodder.
Münîrî's ghazal of the chin's apple: apples on a grave's willow, an eye that is a sick physician, a sword-bearing preacher in the mosque of the face and the "sehm" pun.
Prince Bayezid's murabba with the refrain "what a hard pain separation is"; Filiz Kılıç reads its fourth stanza as a son's plea for a letter from his father Süleyman.
Kara Fazlî's chronogram celebrating with the line "Aḥmedā yümn-ile olduñ defterī" Ahmed Çelebi's appointment in 954 (1547) as defterdar of the timars of Rumelia.
Kara Fazlî's seven-couplet chronogram recording the banquet given on Mount Taşan in 958 (1551) by the vizier Mîr Yahyâ in honour of Prince Mustafa.
The only Arabic single couplet in Mustafa Vâzıh's Dîvânçe: a maxim ranking even a gravely accused servant above one who reproaches with his favours.
A ghazal of a belt with an appetite for a hair-fine waist: buds flayed by the breeze, knotted sugar cane, beaten musk wrapped in skin, and a moon that will enter the bow of the arms.
Praise of the Prophet in the metre of Rumi's Masnavi: the organ is Khidr of hidden knowledge, the reed a reed of wisdom, and all the poet's verse is born of a single glance.
Münîrî's banquet ghazal: tears turned to wine and a breast turned to kebab, rosewater for a dog, a sun that drops in through the chimney and a closing "God knows best".
Prince Bayezid's murabba with the refrain "my wish is only to be at service in the dust of your feet"; for Filiz Kılıç a plea awaiting Süleyman's pardon.
Kara Fazlî's eleven-couplet chronogram on Sinan Bey, secretary of the salaried horsemen of the Left Division, rising in 954 (1547) to secretary of the Zümre-i evvel.
Opening with the saying "Every Ahmed has his Abu Jahl", this short-lined ghazal targets the fodder-eating preacher and leaves its secrets behind in a sefine.
Münîrî's ghazal of the forsaken lover: only the sword turns its face to him, a cup lip to lip, a Sufi's turban pawned for wine, gold on the touchstone and a fevered grave.
Prince Bayezid's seven-stanza murabba with the refrain "the soul may part from the body, but to part from you is impossible": Ferhad and Şirin and the word dirlik.
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Kara Fazlî's two-couplet chronogram with the prayer "Yirin nūr eylesün" on the death in 955 (1548) of Mahmud, son of Sun'ullah Beg, vizier of Prince Mustafa.
A ghazal of colour built on an indigo dress: a sky that whirls with joy, a reflection taken for kohl, a dark-blue arrow in a red bow, and a soul-mirror rusting with envy of a green robe.
The six-couplet ghazal opens on roast and wine, yet the wine needs no cup and no eye sees it; ruined lovers fill the tavern and a dergâh stands between palace and lodge.
Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "-üp": a pupil at the window, a pun on dragging one's face and following a track, an arrow of fate and lips that need not take a life.
Prince Bayezid's eight-stanza love murabba with the refrain "I have loved a faithless beloved": hyacinth, rose, nightingale, the breath of Jesus, Leylâ and Mecnun.
Every couplet ends in "Pîrî's": the refrain is a proper name, which suggests a poem for a real young man. The beloved's mole is a Hindu holding a mirror in the west.
Naming Abu Bakr as guide and Ali as conqueror of Khaybar side by side, this syllabic ghazal voices without dispute the stance Nigârî took against the Rafidi charge.
Münîrî's chess ghazal: lips served by sugar and candy, the alms of beauty, a beloved who checkmates kings with "ruḫ" as cheek and rook, and freedom in captivity to tresses.
Kara Fazlî's three-couplet chronogram on the death in 955 (1548) of Mahmud, son of Prince Mustafa's vizier Sun'ullah Beg, built on the double sense of "Maḳām-ı Maḥmūd".
Prince Bayezid's murabba with the refrain "my pain comes from longing for a merciless moon": stanzas completed by the refrain, the mihr pun and the threshing floor of grief.
The lover's bloodshot eye is treated in the language of old eye medicine: tutty, red powder, a kohl-stick. The road's dust, reddened by tears, becomes a remedy of itself.
The poet calls his own divan a verse of love and a scripture of passion; the brow is a prayer niche, the stature a pulpit, the ascetic lower than a donkey, and a naat closes.
Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "ey dost": a servant begging a glance from the king of beauty, pearls poured from the eyes, rose-sugar lips and a body wasted to a straw.
Kara Fazlî's two-couplet Persian chronogram on the death in 955 (1548) of Mahmud, son of Sun'ullah Beg, vizier of Prince Mustafa: the Arabic-script text and its reading.
Prince Bayezid's murabba with the refrain "had your image not been my companion on this road": stanzas built on a condition, Cemşid and falling far from service.
The lover counts what the beloved never did, the refrain "you did not" carrying the list. Honey turns to sting, and the word "teftīş" makes the complaint read like a petition.
Âye, pîrâye, mâye, sermâye, dâye and sâye share one sound, while over the crownless head of the poet, nurse to love's child, stands the shade of the cypress-statured.
Münîrî's plain ghazal in a short metre: union hanging on fortune, a lover bent double for a cypress-tall youth, a lost arrow, the well of the chin and sinking into fortune.
Prince Bayezid's murabba with the refrain "let this weeping eye weep, let it weep blood": clouds and ocean weeping with the lover, and in the end trust in God.
The Turkish suffix "-lik", joined to Persian and Arabic roots, makes the whole rhyme. Hair and stature teach the plants of Irem, and Ca'fer, melted by grief, asks "is this manliness?"
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