Edîb of Lâdik's opening couplet likening love to a flaming plume on the rose of the heart and to the ornament of a turban of madness; possibly a second matla of one ghazal.
A name riddle on Hasan by Eşref, commentator of Câmî's treatise on riddles: hyacinth locks, down like the edge of a meadow and teeth like the pearls of Aden.
Kul Hüseyin's düvaz-ı imam with the refrain "for the love of God the One, Muhammad and Ali": a sinner at the dar, the threshold of the Forty and pardon asked of each Imam.
Derviş Edna's nefes on his devotion to the path of the Friend: the waist girded on the Day of Elest, the rival's dagger and the belief in changing "a thousand and one garments".
Dervîş Mehmed Çelebi's Turkish couplets with the refrain "yaḳam": the brand of love, the candle of the night of separation, Mecnun's lamp and a rose garden set on fire.
Pîrî Mehmed Pasha's opening couplet jealous of the sun: the play on gün and günlemek, the candle lighting the gathering and a beauty sought in the sky but found on earth.
A couplet surviving from a lost kaside by Sânî: an address to the gardener comparing the scentless cypress with the musk-scented beloved and playing on scent in the word bûdur.
Siyâbî's opening couplet found in three sources: the elif cuts a lover opened on his breast likened to cypresses, his burn scars to roses, and pain turned into a fresh garden.
Three couplets from the verse preface of Zekâî's lost book of model letters: greeting, prayer, praise and longing likened to the dawn breeze, the rose and the nightingale.
Four couplets of a ghazal with the refrain "like me": the candle of the night of grief, cups of the heart's blood, the arrow of the bow-browed beloved and the arrows of blame.
Emîrî's ghazal with his pen name, kept whole by Âşık Çelebi: a life that is a single moment, envy among the learned, the blood of two brothers and a city of sheikhs.
Ehlî's couplet saying that thieves seize the high offices while the honest go empty-handed: the play on doğru and uğru and the poet's own disappointments in office.
A lover who burns a thousand and one black brands on his body for the beloved's black beauty spot: black brand and white face in Cevherî's matla.
A three-couplet ghazal fragment by Bahâeddîn Mehmed Efendi: the grace of seeing the guide's face, the resolve of the people of God, the heart as God's gaze.
The opening couplet of a kaside by Şeyhî: before the life-giving speech of the man praised even the Messiah, who raised the dead, falls silent; a couplet built on the word rûh.
Two couplets by Sıdkı Mustafa Pasha with the refrain -yi gör: cups going round in the rose season, wine that turns a man into a nightingale, and the reed flute.
Refîkî's opening couplet on the lover who wastes into a crescent thinking of the brow: the rhyme of hilâl and hayâl, the motif of thinness and Hüsameddin's variant.
Rûhî Fâzıl Çelebi's couplet on the moon that oversteps its bounds to rival the beloved's cheek: the double senses of hadd and dâyire, and an explanation of the moon's spots.
Sülûkî's couplet turning the tale of candle and moth into a union inside the lantern: the glass shade as one shirt, pleasure instead of burning, and an indirect wish.
The seven-couplet poem that, after Osman Gazi's dream, addresses "my son" and with the refrain "senüñdür" counts out victory, sovereignty and world dominion one by one.
An opening couplet by Remzî, quoted by Kınalızâde and Beyânî, in which the stones of cruelty fall on the head of the lover who ignored the warnings, rhyming stone with head.
The book's first ghazal: lovers drunk on the wine of the primordial covenant, dervishes withdrawn to ruins, burning moths and the poet as a pearl diver.
The matla Latîfî and Kınalızâde give to Murad II: a lover who knows it is not his place to ask for a kiss leaves his wish to the insight of the one who understands.
The lover's complaint in the refrain "baña" (to me): he reaps only grief from the world's field, Adam weeps, poison meets antidote and prayer turns to the brow's niche.
Sâhib's na‘t of nine couplets: the shadowless Prophet as the leaven of God's shadow on earth, the levlâke hadith, the moon of the Ascension night and a plea for intercession.
Niyâzî's couplet setting his tears against the seas: the surging sea drowns in seas of tears, and the boundless ocean yields to the "göz", both eye and spring.
Mihrî Hatun's kaside for Prince Ahmed's Feast of Sacrifice, praising him in the language of love and joining the images of pilgrimage and sacrifice.
A 37-stanza murabba that the historian of Amasya scattered through his book as a table of contents, walking the city quarter by quarter from Çakallar to the fortress.
The first Turkish ghazal in Adlî's divan: seven couplets on the bow-browed beloved, the arrow of the lashes, love from pre-eternity and the script of Divine Power.
Münîrî's twenty-five-couplet Persian poem in praise of the Prophet, a response to Selmân-ı Sâvecî, describing his station through images of light, shadow and elixir.
Tâcîzâde Sa'dî Çelebi's single couplet mocking the legendary lovers: what do Ferhad and Mecnun know of love, one a mountain man, the other a madman of the desert.
Descriptive couplets from Hubbî Hatun's lost mesnevi kept by the anthologies: a morning that raises a golden canopy, water writing a verse of mercy, an armoured sea, love's alchemy.
Âfitâbî's couplet built on the reed flute and the house: the heart's fire is known from the breath like the ney, a merry house from the sound within; a fine use of a proverb.
Sâfî's (Cezerî Kasım Paşa) ghazal with the refrain "why should it be": hyacinth hair, two kings over a ruined heart, sun and moon as mirror-bearers, fate arriving like the down.
Basîrî's ghazal counting the calamities stirred up by the beloved's down and mole: lost patience and strength, untold arrow wounds, a sigh that rings the sky's bowl and the last soul.
Kara Fazlî's second na't of fifteen couplets, praising the Prophet as the cause of creation and the direction of prayer, and asking for intercession with allusions to Jesus.
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