The first quatrain of Tokatlı Nûrî's koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: a broken pledge, the bow of the brow and the arrows of the lashes; original text, English prose and commentary.
The first quatrain of Nazîf's koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: the pain of love, fear of exile and a dark-eyed beloved; original text, English prose and commentary.
The first quatrain of Himmetî's koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: a lover moaning like a forlorn nightingale for an absent beloved; original text, English prose and commentary.
The first quatrain of Kerem's koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: hazel eyes and a lover who burns and weeps; original text, English prose and commentary.
The opening couplet of Firâkî's ghazal in the Merzifon Cönkü: a heart rushing like a flood toward the beloved; original text, English prose and commentary.
The opening couplet of Ârif's Güfte in the Merzifon Cönkü: a fairy-faced beauty who steals reason at first sight; original text, English prose and commentary.
The first quatrain of Yesârî's koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: a face like embers and the companions of the sultan of hearts; original text, English prose and commentary.
The first quatrain of a koşma by Dertli preserved in the Merzifon Cönkü: a beloved whose moods cannot be read, a heart that dies down and flares up, and love's affliction.
The opening couplet of Şem‘î's poem in the Merzifon Cönkü: a lover who forbids the morning breeze to blow, and locks whose single stirring strand would shake the world.
The first quatrain of a koşma by Âşık Ömer in the Merzifon Cönkü: a lover whose complaint reaches from earth to sky gives the beloved a choice between his ruin and her coquetry.
The first quatrain of Hayrî's poem in the Merzifon Cönkü: true skill as finding a match on love's path, the matchless pearl in wisdom and Darius's fortune in contentment.
The opening couplet of Visâlî's poem in the Merzifon Cönkü: a voice of longing seeking a vanished youth like a rose sapling and a full moon with the face of a radiant guide.
The first quatrain of Zihnî's koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: a lover tells the scribe to write and the morning breeze to carry his letter to a delicate beloved without delay.
The first quatrain of Sürûrî's koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: a lover weary of a moon-faced beloved's torment, whose sigh fails to move her yet passes over Mount Keşiş.
A fatwa in verse: Süleyman asks in a couplet whether killing ants is a sin, and Zenbilli Ali Efendi answers in the same rhyme that the ant will take its due from Süleyman.
A couplet on the unity of being from the Etvâr-ı Seb'a attributed to Habib-i Karamânî, saying God is both seer and seen: its meaning, figures of speech and attribution.
The first two couplets of Serbesî's divânî preserved in the Merzifon Cönkü: the cry of a lover who weeps like Jacob and lies in the dungeon like Joseph.
The opening couplet of the semâî recorded under Berkî(?) in the Merzifon Cönkü: counsel to the heart to be wise and refined, with its problems of reading and authorship.
The opening couplet of the ghazal recorded under Mısrî in the Merzifon Cönkü: a mystical self that is the pearl of the sea of existence and the ruin hiding a treasure.
The first stanza of Zahmî's Karbala elegy in the Merzifon Cönkü: mourning renewed in Muharram, the martyrdom of the king of sainthood and a curse on Shimr and Ibn Muljam.
The opening couplet of Rızâ's ghazal in the Merzifon Cönkü: a lodge couplet calling the Sufi with "Allâh hû yâ hû" to the devran and the meydan, to join the dhikr.
The opening couplet of Bâkî's ghazal preserved in the Merzifon Cönkü: a lover who would scatter his bloody tears like jewels on the dust of the beloved's feet.
The first quatrain of Âşık Deli's koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: the plain words of a minstrel who wakes, watches the mist on the mountain top and thanks the Creator.
Dervişoğlu's deyiş of separation with the refrain "Nazlı yarden ayrı düştüm ağladım": the vow of pre-eternity, devotion to a true guide and the word the jeweller sells.
Sıdkî Baba's love deyiş that opens with the candle and the moth: a lover ready for the gallows like Mansur, the cup of union, the cupbearer of the feast and a resolve made in sincerity.
Kul Hasan's deyiş with the refrain "Felek bizi gafil buldu avuttu": sultans passing through the inn of the world, the mill of life, the caravan left unready and death's arrow.
The opening couplet of a ghazal recorded under the name Feyzî in the Merzifon Cönkü: true accomplishment lies in finding a wise guide and reaching meaning.
The first stanza of Bezmî's müseddes in the Merzifon Cönkü: a grieving beloved, rivals behind a barricade, moles like pepper and a sugared neck never kissed.
The first quatrain of Gedâyî's koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: the tears of a lover burning in the fire of separation and his plea to a stone-hearted beloved.
The first quatrain of Fethî of Merzifon's koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: a beloved who leaves her ring as a keepsake, a plea for fairness, and torment as gain.
The first quatrain of Mahsûnî's koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: a bow-browed beloved with a face like a rose, the charge of faithlessness and a lover made a laughing-stock.
The first two couplets of Âşık Mustafa's ghazal in the Merzifon Cönkü: long waiting, a bow-browed beloved and a hüma bird lost between earth and sky.
Five lines from the semai of the poet read as Filib in the Merzifon Cönkü: a beloved black of brow and eye, stars around a moon face and the fear of parting.
The opening couplet of Hayâtî of Merzifon preserved by Latîfî: the rosebud tearing its collar and the rose falling to wailing at the beloved's cheek, and the gülzâr pun.
The only ghazal by Yeğenzâde Âsım Bey kept in Fatîn's tezkire: a rose garden, the feast of Cem, the musk of Khotan, loosened buttons and a Mecnun led by a rope.
Two couplets surviving from Edîb of Lâdik's poems in praise of the Prophet: the edifice of the law that ruin cannot topple and a talisman-sealed treasure reason cannot open.
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