
Şehzade Korkut (Harîmî): Literary Persona, Works and Poems
The poetry of Prince Korkut, born in Amasya and writing as Harîmî: his Arabic works, his lost divan and surviving divançe, the biographers' verdicts and his poems.
Prince Korkut (pen name Harîmî), born in Amasya: his poetry, works and the poems preserved in the tezkires.

The poetry of Prince Korkut, born in Amasya and writing as Harîmî: his Arabic works, his lost divan and surviving divançe, the biographers' verdicts and his poems.

The ghazal that opens the Dîvânçe of Prince Korkut, pen name Harîmî: the returning fire of love, the ledger of fame thrown into the sea and the drunken lover who cannot keep a secret.

Harîmî's ghazal of complaint against a faithless beloved: a heart captive to hair black as Leylâ's, foot-dust asked of the breeze and a "welcome" to the sorcerer eye that drinks blood.

Harîmî's ghazal in which collyrium, violet and narcissus are humbled before the beloved: a flask that bows in prostration and a lover whose scars look like a leopard skin.

Harîmî's ghazal with the refrain "ile bahs̱": a rose that cannot rival the beloved, an infidel rival, a lover who takes the field like Rüstem and poetry a thousand divans cannot describe.

Harîmî's ghazal with the refrain "yeter": locks that afflict the head, the arrow of a glance as fate, passion worn as crown and robe, and God's help against the rival.

Harîmî's ghazal that opens with the rose and thorn motif: a treasure of love in the chest of the breast, an abdal sleeping by the furnace and a poet like a falcon never short of prey.

Harîmî's ghazal whose opening the biographers called a "famous opening couplet": foot-dust as collyrium, a breast sown with love and a lover whose only companion is his sigh.

Harîmî's ghazal rhyming on "dağlar": the wounds on the breast become crows on a ruin, tears become rushing water and the brands become the red pavilions of the king of love.

Harîmî's ghazal set in a wine gathering: silver cups that turn affairs to gold, tavern dust as alchemy, a lover who refuses the water of life and combs that scatter the locks.

Harîmî's ghazal that makes the kopuz lute speak like a suffering lover: wordplay on fret, peg and palate, from the pen of a prince the biographers knew as a musician.

Harîmî's ghazal with the refrain "olmaz": musk that imitates the mole, a cheek like the garden of paradise, a face where night never falls and a street where no lover may be tormented.

Harîmî's ghazal with the refrain "-dan geçemez": a beloved who will not give up cruelty, a heart that cannot get past arrow and bow, a hypocrite rival and a couplet of the four elements.
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Harîmî's ghazal in the letter sîn: the fire of Abraham and the breath of Jesus, the inspector of the market of love, a caravan tying on its litter and a sheikh who counsels silence.

Harîmî's short ghazal in the letter 'ayn: the nightingale's farewell to the rose, a beauty that lends light to the sun, lips that keep a secret and a pearl of verse cheapened by plenty.

Harîmî's short ghazal with the refrain "-yı 'ışk": a sea of love that will drown the world, a lover whose head is given to the wind and disgrace chosen because love's secret cannot be kept.

Harîmî's ghazal built on doubled words: a stature like the letter elif on the tablet of the heart, a rose scattering gold by the tray and the liver's blood filling the eye.

Harîmî's ghazal rhyming in "-âne": Şîrîn reduced to a tale in Hüsrev's gathering, a lover who outdoes the moth and a house of the heart that robs the tavern of its worth.

Harîmî's ghazal with the refrain "itsem gerek": a lover running to the beloved like the dawn wind, a huma bird to be hunted like a gnat and a resolve to reach asceticism through blame.

Harîmî's ghazal rhyming in "-en": jasmine skin that cheapens the rose, a lion-felling gazelle, an Indian mole that brands the breast and a lover who comes with his shroud around his neck.

Harîmî's ghazal in the letter lâm: a lover lost like a camel in rut, a soul awaiting union under the sign of Aries and a last couplet that joins the poet's pen name to the Kaaba's precinct.

Harîmî's ghazal with the refrain "-dur benüm": a beloved who is life's harvest, a stone of separation that becomes a gravestone, sorrow as an old companion and tears that betray the secret.

Harîmî's ghazal with the refrain "-um benüm": a welcome embroidered in blood on the slipper, a moon-faced beloved who walks without a shadow and a lover dancing on the gallows of the locks.

Harîmî's ghazal in the letter nûn: a Mecnun heart bound to Leylâ's hair, a soul clinging to the rope of the locks in the chin's well and a pearl pierced by envy.

Harîmî's ghazal rhyming in "-âb": the change of the qibla, eyes that cannot leave Cem's cup, an ascetic bound to the prayer niche and a lover at the Kaaba's door.

Harîmî's ghazal rhyming in "-en": the pearl of Aden piercing its breast, Khotan musk falling to the ground, thorns on the Kaaba road turned to roses and a shroud of roses for the lover.

Harîmî's ghazal rhyming in "-en": the idol as teacher of coquetry, a lover who puts the rope around his own neck, basil and jasmine laid low and the sound play "yil, yiri, yirine".

Harîmî's poem of leaving crown and robe to wander in exile: couplets that the biographers say Prince Korkut spoke as the voice of his condition when he went to Egypt.

Harîmî's ghazal with the refrain "şimdengirü": an ear closed to advice, locks that make the musk of Cathay needless and death called to be physician when the healer of souls forgets.

Harîmî's ghazal in the long hezec metre: locks that perfume the horizons, the water of the eye against that of the cheek, a black passion and sleep turned into a dream.

Harîmî's ghazal built like a catalogue of beauty: mole and locks as Zanzibari and Indian, eye and glance as trickster and sorcerer, a beloved rising like a star of fortune and the cry "Hû".

Harîmî's ghazal built in the language of calligraphy: down written on the lips, the basmala of the Mahzenü'l-esrâr, a sunburst on a wall and a name the scribe of tears writes on every wall.

Harîmî's ghazal rhyming in "-âne": the matchless pearl of the sea of love, a rind who leaves the kingdom of the world for the tavern and advice that cannot reach one maddened by love.

Harîmî's ghazal with the refrain "oldun yine": a heart moaning like a nightingale, the scent of union, a soul waiting for death and a Sufi flight from multiplicity to unity.

Harîmî's ghazal rhyming in "-âb": a heart thirsty in the sea of love, prayer at the niche of the brow, an eye that has seen the divine light and a soul surrendered to love's butcher.

Harîmî's ghazal with the refrain "-uma": a beloved guarded from friends, a shadow that comes only on sunny days, a spider web bound on a wound and verse that seizes the world like the sun.
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