Mihrî Hatun's seven-couplet ghazal addressed to one Hacı Nâbî, complaining of fickle beauties in plain, conversational idiom close to everyday speech.
Adlî's five-couplet ghazal on the refrain "kıl" makes the beloved a physician, plays on fixed stars and planets, sets the tavern against hypocrisy and ends with a cypress by the river.
Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "-yı tost": the face is the dawn, the hair the night, the preacher's hell a spark of separation, the lover her nightingale.
The deyiş "İçmiş isen aşk meyinden", published under Kul Hüseyin's name on a deyiş website from a music album: unity of sea, pen, love, and of Ali, saint and pir, through the redif "one".
An eight-couplet ghazal with the refrain “-ilen”: a love that speech, writing, law and exegesis cannot hold, the limit of remembrance and rabıta as the beloved's eyebrow.
The only quatrain in the main manuscript: a heart wounded by the arrow of grief, a lover undone by the thought of lashes, and grief that tears his collar to shreds, in four lines.
The world never keeps one form: two couplets headed "Diger nazm" that close the chapter on Yıldırım Bayezid's taking of Amasya, Sivas, Erzincan and Malatya.
A ghazal telling the physician "do not trouble yourself": death as the cure of passion, calamities that ask after the lover while the beloved does not, a love-curse on the rival.
The lover calls himself an almond in patience, the pilgrim's garb on the road of Unity, a dot in writing, a cup in the gathering, and the useless days of an old calendar.
In the first Turkish quatrain the servant comes stumbling to the door; his hope rests on the kindness that cures the ills of sin and the power whose one breath made Adam and Eve of earth.
Mihrî Hatun's ghazal with the redif "itmemek olmaz" (cannot but): longing, tears, the cypress, the lash-arrow and the moth as inevitable results of love.
Adlî's seven-couplet ghazal on the refrain "eksük degül" counts the snare of the locks, a beauty equal to the sun and the rivals in his company, ending as one of a thousand beggars.
Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "est": the ruby lip is sweeter than life, the tulip loses the ring game with ash in its mouth, and the breast smokes like a censer.
The deyiş "Gönül niçin beni zari zar ağlatırsın", published without a source under Kul Hüseyin's name on a deyiş website: the oath of a lover who will not break his pledge or love another.
The ghazal in which the poet names his master İsmet: kingship through poverty, a head laid at the threshold like İbrâhim b. Edhem, and turning from all to God.
The quatrain of a lover who does not want to be freed from love's pain: two couplets praying "may God not save me from this pain nor stop my tears".
Deportation as law: Saruhan nomads who ignored the salt ban are moved by Bayezid's son Ertuğrul to the Plovdiv district as the Sarhan Beglü, in three couplets.
Lightning from the lover's sighs is hurled at the strangers driven from the door, the liver becomes kebab for the wine, and the poet asks a reward as if for a Shahname.
Sharing its pattern with ghazal 54 and repeating two of its lines, this ghazal from the T. 738 copy says fortune is won by luck and union bought with gold.
Cûdî's quatrain addressed to the Prophet: the light that gave birth to Adam though it is Adam's son, the basmala of creation's Fâtiha, and the amen at the end of Judgement Day.
Mihrî Hatun's ghazal with the redif "gerekmez" (not needed): a poem of devotion saying that with the beloved present even soul, paradise, pearls and the water of life are superfluous.
Adlî's five-couplet ghazal makes the eyebrow a crescent shaped like the letter râ above a sunlike face, the locks a Night of Power, and ends: no gazelle is caught with a ghazal.
Münîrî's Persian ghazal found only in the Vienna manuscript: a lip that revives like the Messiah, salt on the wound, and the poet's view that every art needs learning.
The section on dying before death: annihilation and abiding, the descent from ascent back among the people, and the most perfect saint who seems most ignorant.
A two-stanza murabba from the Pervâne Bey Mecmuası: a piece unlike any other in the divan, calling the beloved by name, "my life, my Hasan Bâlî", and naming him a maker of caps.
A reproach in two couplets to Taharten, the lords of Germiyan, Aydın and Menteşe and İsfendiyar's envoy, who fled from Bayezid to Timur and incited him against Anatolia.
A ghazal with the refrain "O physician": the pain of love told to a doctor, souls and blood found in a split breast, a sickness even Luqman could not cure, and the ruby lip as sole remedy.
One of Sâhib's most playful ghazals: puns on Kays and the apricot, peach and mişmiş, gossip told with the suffix "-miş", a Sufi without music, and check in chess.
Revelation that began on a mountain, the verse "his speech is nothing but revelation", and the earth's firm mountains turned into pulpits: an Arabic quatrain to the Prophet.
Mihrî Hatun's second ghazal with the redif "gerekmez": the lover counts cruelty as fidelity and grief as cure, dismisses the counsellor and turns to the wine of love as a rend.
Adlî's five-couplet ghazal makes the lover a candle's wick and the lip's memory the water of Selsebil, calls the tearless a miser, and finds honour not in sovereignty but at a threshold.
Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "keşīd": the refrain takes a new sense in each couplet, the down writes on the heart's tablet, and grief's army lays waste the heart.
The second kaside to the saints: saints as treasuries, divers and mirrors, criticism of imitators, and a prayer for the sake of İsmet, Nakşibend and Geylânî.
Three couplets left from an incomplete ghazal: a lover chained by the beloved's locks who prays never to be freed, a soul made for many pains, and tears and breast-fire joining forces.
The Anatolian lords who fled from Bayezid to Timur tell how they lost their wealth, families and homes, in six couplets headed "Diger nazm".
Youth is over, yet the horse of aspiration still runs in the arena of passion; the ghazal of a drunkenness without wine calls the Sufi drunk with sleep and itself awake.
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