Münîrî's forty-three-couplet Persian kaside for Bayezid II, a response to Selmân and Zahîr, with an inner ghazal that splits an opening couplet by Hâfız in two.
Basîrî's ghazal with the refrain "a rose is enough", opening with his most quoted couplet: a proverb about the gnostic, roses of bloody tears, and the readings "half" and "my beloved".
Müeyyedzâde Abdurrahman Çelebi's Persian ta‘miye chronogram on the death of a notable, in which the year is found by subtracting one from the words "huld-i berîn".
Gelibolulu Sürûrî's pen-name couplet: a jest on the idiom "to eat grief", saying that the poet who spent all he had on the beloved's road will leave his heir nothing but sorrow.
Kara Fazlî's fifty-couplet sûriyye describing a palace wedding at the Hippodrome, with jugglers, sugar figures, a banquet and fireworks, and praising Sultan Süleyman.
Kadı Burhaneddin's ghazal couplet pairing Anatolia and Turkestan with the beloved's face and eye: a heart at home in the land of Rum that still longs for its roots.
Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi's ghazal with the refrain "of": five couplets of sighing over separation from the beloved, a life thrown to the wind and the wish for union in the world of meaning.
Praise of Ali through the letters from Alif to Ya: Fedâî Baba's alphabet eulogy citing the Qur'an, the twelve imams, Balım Sultan and Kızıl Deli.
An opening couplet Gelibolulu Âlî quoted from Edâyî, preserved in TEİS: a parallel between the cup of love stirring the lovers' gathering and the drunken eye dazing the world.
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.
Mustafa Vâzıh's ghazal built on proofs and comparisons: light shown by darkness, spoilage on wine, a drop of ink fallen from the pen and the astrologer's pun on "ay".
Nigârî's opening couplet with the refrain "feth": secrets open with the key of love and locked doors with a brimming cup, playing on the two meanings of mihr.
A deyiş of the path with the refrain "makbulu": keeping apart from the people of the age, keeping one's secret from the ignorant, passing from duality to unity, servanthood to sovereignty.
The first quatrain of Tokatlı Nûrî's koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: a sulking beloved with a tilted fez and a frowning brow; original text, English prose and commentary.
Sıdkî Baba's semai with the refrain "Eller ne derse desinler": devotion to the çelebis Cemaleddin, Feyzullah and Hamdullah, who died in Amasya, and the çile fulfilled in 1308.
Kul Hüseyin's poem with the refrain "I have fallen out with fate, I will not make peace again": an earthquake in the city of the body, a scattered home, and fate sifting people.
Derviş Edna's nefes that asks "did you see, did you know": a grieving heart that cannot settle on every flower, the community of the saved, and a dervish whose home is the body.
Ehlî's couplet about a beloved who first knows the lover and then says "I do not know him": a scene of hearsay in the reportative mood and variants in three sources.
The plea for intercession of a poet standing as a beggar at the Prophet's door, his face darkened by sin, in fear of hell: the shortest and most personal na't.
The power that reddens the rose and scents the musk: Sa‘dī Çelebi sets out God's existence and attributes in Arabic verse and defends the eternity of the Qur'an.
In this nazire ghazal the heart is a mirror and the brow's reflection a burnisher; satin is left to the new moon, the sky becomes a shadow lantern, and the bond holds.
A short ghazal fed by wedding and royal customs: the cloud of the lashes scatters pearls at the beloved's feet, and the yellowed face becomes a gold carpet for her image.
Justice and generosity as Osman's law: five couplets closing the chapter in which Sultan Alâeddin sends a banner and the nevbet, and the custom of standing for it is explained.
Sâhib's short chronogram for Muhammad, steward of Hasan Pasha, governor of Baghdad: a riddle on the letters of the name and brief praise defended with "mâ kalle ve dell".
Cûdî's supplication with the refrain "to me", resting on the idea of annihilation: praise from me and bounty from you, candidacy for nonbeing, and the shame of saying "I".
Mihrî Hatun's twenty-couplet kaside, in which the festival falls in spring and Şehzade Ahmed is praised, with an English prose rendering and commentary.
Adlî's ghazal on the refrain "abes", casting the rival as crow and dog and the ascetic as a fox shunning the moon, and calling a cure futile to one used to pain, in English.
Münîrî's fifty-seven-couplet spring kaside for Bayezid II opens with a dawn wind breathing like the Messiah and a rose like the fire of Moses, then praises the sultan.
Basîrî's ghazal that opens with two wishes: to see the beloved and not the rival, an Indian mole stranded in Rum, a helpless physician, an all-tongue nightingale and a world-burning sigh.
Kara Fazlî's forty-nine-couplet second sûriyye, in which an angel announces the princes' circumcision feast, its banquet and fireworks, followed by praise of Süleyman.
The Arabic quatrain Müeyyedzâde Abdurrahman Çelebi wrote as kazasker to endorse a scholar's treatise, preserved in Arabic script in Hüsameddin's History of Amasya.
Kadı Burhaneddin's couplet contrasting prayer niche and battlefield: the Sufi's wish is prayer, the valiant man's desire is the field; the voice of a warrior sultan-poet.
Abdurrahman Kâmil Efendi's ghazal "Bu ḳadar ḥasrete ṣabr idemezem sulṭânım": thirteen couplets of longing, fear of being forgotten and the claim to be a "master guide of love".
Praise of Mustafa Kemal in the language of Sufism: Fedâî Baba's ghazal with the redif "you became", naming the pole, the hidden saints, the Republic and the railways.
Edâyî's couplet of the drop rained from the cloud of love and the peerless pearl in the oyster of the world; the April rain belief, and the irony of Âlî's verdict on the poet.
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.
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