
Ghazal 71 — Merdüm-i çeşmüm ki ṭurmaz dāne-i eşki ṣaçar
Münîrî's ghazal built on proverbs: a pupil scattering the grain of tears, "whoever sows reaps" and "whoever halts moves on", dust as eye salve, and pure silver that passes through stone.

Münîrî's ghazal built on proverbs: a pupil scattering the grain of tears, "whoever sows reaps" and "whoever halts moves on", dust as eye salve, and pure silver that passes through stone.

Münîrî's ghazal: a lock embracing the bride of beauty, a ruby lip that reveals secrets like wine, tears riding Gülgûn in an allusion to Khosrow and Shirin, and advice unheeded.

Münîrî's only ghazal with the refrain "gösterür": the sting of the eyelash arrow, a lover everyone points out, a heart answering with its wound, and the idiom "one thing leads to another".

Münîrî's ghazal: a sweet lip speaking bitter words, tears that quench the heart's fire, a rebellious lock whispering evil in the ear, and night tears that turn the earth into the Pleiades.

Münîrî's ghazal: a mail-clad lock caging the heart in iron, a heart's house that grows brighter as it is pierced, the pun of rose garden and furnace, and a tomb full of arrowheads.

Münîrî's ghazal: a hyacinth veil on the cheek, the magic of a glance that lays the world waste, a lip that melts the ruby of Yemen, longing that roasts the breast, and unworthy friends.

Münîrî's short-metre ghazal without refrain: a cypress stature above the pine, "Allāhü ekber" in the rhyme, a sugarloaf hanged for imitating a lip, and wet fire against a dry ascetic.

Münîrî's ghazal also found in anthologies of response poems: a beloved served by the sun of the east, a heart drunk till Judgment Day, and the saying that shaving does not make a dervish.

Münîrî's ghazal sharing its rhyme with tg 62: a heart joyful at a rose face and distraught at hyacinth hair, a rosebud puckered by the breeze, and a mole that draws humans like Adam.

Münîrî's ghazal: a fairy-faced beloved no magic can subdue, eyes painting on a tablet of gold, a dream of a lock read as long life, and a lover's face that would sully the path's dust.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "getürür": down on the cheek like Khidr, a ruby lip like Solomon's seal, a lock hiding a candle, and a face written in reyhânî script.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "ḳaṣd ider": a thirsting heart that seeks the soul, down that tarnishes the soul's mirror, a gazelle eye turned lion, and a lover aiming at Saturn.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "dem urur": a madman who speaks of the lock's chain, a lock breathing with the breeze, a pun on Khitai and error, and three musical modes.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "diñlenür": a moth that rests in the flame, tears that never rest, advice to a barking rival to rest now and then, and a refrain split in two.

Münîrî's ghazal: a lip that is rose-sugar in form and moist fire in essence, an eye turned shield full of arrows, a brow like the lengthening mark, and dust that lights the eye.

Münîrî's ghazal whose opening couplet the biographers cite: two springs of the eye pouring jewels like water, the falcon of the lock, and a false heart known on the touchstone.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "alur gider": a beggar heart that hosts a sultan each night, a madman taking a thief as guest, the drunken Turk's sword, and a candle carried about.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "var": a glance with dawn arrows, a heart whose trouble is worse than the lover's, a breeze bearing news of the tulip, and sorrow that also passes.

Münîrî's ghazal woven of letter play: the verdict "ṣarar" written by a ṣād eye and two rā brows, lashes sifting the threshold's dust, and puns on żarar, yarar and ḳarar.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "ider": an army of sorrow plundering the heart, a nightingale moaning on an almond branch, locks like peacocks, and a rose compiling a divan.

Münîrî's ghazal laden with idiom and proverb: where fire falls it smokes, a beloved who thinks man grows like grass, and an eye drowned in tears like a water jug lying in water.

Münîrî's ghazal close to popular speech: a pun on "yaşar", tears like rivers in spring flood, an army of sorrow besieging the heart, and the proverb "one who asks crosses mountains".

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "-ler": madmen clinging to the lock, a narcissus eye that ruins houses, moles as burnt hearts, and moths that come to the lover to take lessons.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "olur": tears turning from sugar to salt, a guest uneasy in a sick heart's house, a heart burned as incense, and an ascetic blind as a bat in the sun.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "didiler": a face that is spirit given form, a lip of refined honey, a play on copy and incomplete, and a sun that whirls for resembling her by a mote.

Münîrî's ghazal: a lock that cannot rest on the cheek like a hair in fire, a stature that is elif in the abjad, a tulip jealous of the breeze, and the pupil as curtain-keeper.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "yeter": a face for the gathering's candle, tears for wine, Paradise for the ascetic and halva for the sufi, a lock that ruins musk, a crow in the garden.

Münîrî's short-metre ghazal with the refrain "ider": a strand of hair that bends the lover like a harp, a narrow lip that narrows the world, a rusting mirror, and a pun on çeng and ceng.

Münîrî's ghazal: a breast split like an almond, rose petals as bloodied cotton on the nightingale's wound, a tear wandering like a planet, and a mote whirling though near the sun.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "-a geçer": a lock spreading over the cheek like the king of Abyssinia marching on Rum, pain in the heart's seat of honour, and an arrow piercing marble.

Münîrî's ghazal: a heart that urges the lover to give up the lock only to test him, a soul's mirror clouded by breath, armies of sorrow encamping in turn, and an eye like a burning reed bed.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "-ıdur": bloody tears as the token of longing, two eyes as sentries of the heart's sanctum, a gift of sorrow, and a pen-name couplet that shifts place.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "andadur": a soul lodging where the beloved strolls, a wound with the arrowhead still inside, a thieving glance that guards the lip, and a lit heart.

Münîrî's ghazal rhymed in reduplications: an eye writing in blood "fır fır", a heart trembling "dir dir", tears trickling "sır sır", and a rival snarling "ḫır ḫır" after the gazelle.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "-dür": a breast that is the glance's target, one beloved sought in every form, eyes drunk with morning and evening wine, and a stature like the Tuba tree.

Münîrî's ghazal without a refrain: grief that never wearies by repetition, the "Belî" given to the lock, the deadly thought of the mouth, and the heart likened to a building.
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