
Ghazal 138 — Dil yandı yüzüñ şem‘ine merdāne degül mi
Kara Fazlî's ghazal with the redif "degül mi": a heart that burns like a moth, a drunken glance, treasure hidden in the ruin of the heart, a boasting comb and the tavern.

Kara Fazlî's ghazal with the redif "degül mi": a heart that burns like a moth, a drunken glance, treasure hidden in the ruin of the heart, a boasting comb and the tavern.

Prince Bayezid's ghazal of the gathering: wine that brings rose-garden delight even in winter, superfluous musicians and a charmer who snatches the heart as amber snatches straw.

In this ghazal Münîrî shows his tear, raised like a dear child, turned beggar, the water of Zemzem sinking into the ground for shame, and a fame that spreads over the seven climes.

Kara Fazlî's response poem to Muhibbî rhyming in "-āfī": a play on pure, rank, delight and Sufi, alif and lâm, Mount Kaf and the letter kâf, and the money-changer of verse.

Prince Bayezid's ghazal with the refrain "üzre": a mole like a fly on sugar, a lip that reaches the dying lover like Khidr, and the submission of "upon my eyes and head".

In this ghazal Münîrî describes the uproar a drunken eye brings to the realm of the heart, a beloved who values two worlds less than a mustard seed, and a sigh that lights the sky.

Three double-rhymed couplets by Kara Fazlî preserved in Latîfî's tezkire: a lover mad with love and a beloved fair with beauty, the equals of Majnun and Layla, and a wish to meet.

Prince Bayezid's ghazal on a moon-faced beloved seen in a city: a beauty with no equal in Samarkand or Bukhara, and a lip with the breath of Jesus that refuses to heal.

In this ghazal Münîrî counsels friendship with grief, calls for living in the moment with "dem bu demdür", and says a hair catches on his pen as he writes the beloved's fine traits.

A single couplet by Kara Fazlî preserved in Latîfî's tezkire: the hyperbole of a lover who wishes for a hundred thousand eyes to gaze upon the beloved every moment.

Prince Bayezid's ghazal of a lover who missed the feast of union; Kılıç places it among the poems awaiting the padishah's mercy, and its reed-flute couplet raised a Mevlevi question.

Quoting "nefaḫtü fīh" from the sura al-Hijr, Münîrî defends the life-giving lip of the beloved against the jurist, and blesses the realm of contentment in an Arabic line.

Kara Fazlî's punning ghazal preserved by Âşık Çelebi: the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, a servant and a sea, a face yellow as wheat and an arrow planted in the breast.

Prince Bayezid's ghazal with the refrain "eyle" that likens the beloved's brow to the crescent of the feast; a feast without union and pearls of verse offered to a heedless charmer.

Prince Bayezid's ghazal with the refrain "do not forget": a lover in the guise of nightingale, Jacob and Alexander, in what Kılıç reads as a plea probably addressed to Süleyman.

In this ghazal Münîrî speaks of a window from heart to heart, the soul's bird choking on the smoke of sighs, and the human eye that only a handful of earth can fill.

A couplet by Kara Fazlî preserved in the tezkires of Riyâzî and Kâfzâde: the lover asks whether cruelty has an end, and the beloved answers that the end will be his death.

Prince Bayezid's ghazal of a lover coming to the beloved's threshold in a bloody shroud: a pain no letter can convey, Joseph's shirt and the one word that would open the heart's eyes.

In this ghazal Münîrî shows the heart that, like a startled bird, never returns to its nest, a tear like wine filtered through charcoal, and a plane tree whose hands are cut off.

A single couplet by Kara Fazlî preserved by Riyâzî: the motes in the sunlight at the beloved's window are taken as a ladder set up by the sun to reach the moon-faced one.

Prince Bayezid's ghazal on love at first sight: a mad heart chained with the beloved's locks, a lover who teaches the moth to burn, and a comb allowed to touch the hair.

Münîrî builds every couplet of this ghazal on the sounds "dil eme" and "dileme"; the beloved's lip becomes the heart's remedy, and the lover feeds on his liver's blood.

A couplet by Kara Fazlî preserved by Riyâzî and Kâfzâde: the beloved's cheek is red rose enough for lovers, so the nightingale is told to forget the rose of the garden.

Prince Bayezid's ghazal with the refrain "ile", set in the frame of physician and lovesick patient: a wound no ointment heals, the cup of Cem and a beloved with the breath of Jesus.

Münîrî plays in this ghazal on "âl" as guile, lineage and red; he describes the guile of black eyes, the fall of the heart's fortress and the twilight reddened by bloody tears.

Two couplets by Kara Fazlî preserved by Riyâzî: blood shed from the point of the dagger and the tips of the tresses, a heart torn by separation and a plea for the salve of union.

Prince Bayezid's ghazal with the refrain "one day and one night": a lover who has not seen the beloved for a single day, searches the world for her and counts a day of union as paradise.

Münîrî brings together yas (mourning), Yâsîn and yā (bow) in one cluster of sounds, speaking of a forelock dressed in black and lovers who die before the Yâsîn is read.

A single couplet by Kara Fazlî preserved by Riyâzî: the lover's tears, shed in memory of the beloved's cheek, turn the mountain to meadow, the meadow to garden, the garden to flowers.

Prince Bayezid's ghazal with the refrain "within": a salamander in fire, a ship sunk in tears, a heart turned to dust and a love that would keep him company in the grave.

In this ghazal Münîrî shows a lover seeking a dream about repenting of the ruby cup, a heart turned to stone, and the mocking reply he gets when he asks for sugar against a hangover.

A single couplet by Kara Fazlî preserved by Kâfzâde: the heart hurt by the arrows of the bow-browed beloved is excused with the proverb "kindness pricks a man".

Prince Bayezid's ghazal in the language of sovereignty: Arab hair ruling as sultan in Rum, an ant army setting out to play Solomon and distant shahs ready to die as doorkeepers.

In this ghazal Münîrî speaks of a mole steeped in the water of life yet thirsting for blood, rosebuds amazed at torn collars, and verse that pours pearls onto his divan.

A single couplet by Kara Fazlî preserved by Kâfzâde: the spheres revolving one upon another and the moving sun are pictured as a quarrel over the beauty of the moon-faced beloved.

Prince Bayezid's ghazal with the refrain "for the love of": poison and heart's blood drunk for the beloved, a lover who has left his work, and a kiss asked "for the love of the Creator".
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