Cûdî's second quatrain to the sura al-Najm: the sura as a lamp in the heaven of revelation, an inimitability before which even polytheists bowed, and the believer's duty to prostrate.
Mihrî Hatun's ghazal without redif, rhymed in "-es": the rival as the beloved's shadow, a fly on the lip, and a poet who tells herself that one letter suffices for the wise.
Adlî's five-couplet ghazal on the refrain "eyledüm" adorns his arms with brands of separation, flees stones into a heart of stone, and says amen to the prayers of love's elder.
Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "keşīd": the sun takes its heat from the beloved, veils its face for shame, and trembles like Münîr's heart in separation's fever.
A ghazal of devotion to Mustafa İsmet: the master's word before the world, a secret kept from ascetics, and the master's tomb as the greatest House instead of Mecca.
A single couplet printed without a source: the bewilderment of a lover who asks whether there is no justice in the making of the world, or whether he is still not worthy of mercy.
Musa Çelebi takes the throne in Rumelia while Mehmed Çelebi, hearing in Amasya of Emir Süleyman's death, comes from there to Bursa: two long-lined couplets.
A ghazal of seeking with the refrain "itdim taleb": a burning soul, a house given to the wind, renunciation, cave and desert, and a quest ending in "I woke" or "I wept".
Sâhib's ghazal rhymed on reduplications: a bud reciting sura al-Fath, a nightingale reading leaf by leaf, the tulip of Kefe and the Tatar raider, servants inspected hearth by hearth.
The wisdom in a single ashr of al-Baqara would not fit into ten tablets: a play of numbers between the sura at whose coming the Torah fell and the tablets Moses threw down.
Mihrî Hatun's five-couplet ghazal with the redif "âteş" (fire): the hidden fire of love in the house of the heart, Abraham's fire turned rose garden, and the burning city of the body.
Adlî's seven-couplet ghazal on the refrain "-dur benüm" counts grief as his soul, makes his sigh an arrow aimed at the sky and its smoke the vault of heaven, and blames no one.
Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "şod": bloody tears turn to ruby, the lover is a bubble on the flood of tears, and a mote of the beloved's road becomes a sun.
A six-couplet ghazal with the refrain “var sînede”: a wound from the lashes, untold longing, loathing for the adviser, and one king, İsmet, in the heart as in one land.
A single couplet taken from the Tezkire of Rızâ: the beloved sets foot in the garden of peace to make merry, but the lover's joy does not last and the season of autumn soon arrives.
Fratricide traced back to Cain and Abel, in the chapter where Mehmed Çelebi defeats Musa at Samakov; here the author tells how he lay sick at Yahşı Fakıh's house in Geyve.
The preacher called "bookless": the lovers' Quran, the garden of vision, the Messiah's detachment, a rind refusing the cup of attachment, Mount Elburz and delight without the rebab.
Sâhib's ten-couplet ghazal with the refrain "-andırıncaya dek": a poem of patience in causative verbs, the two senses of kandırmak, an embroidered handkerchief, a watering inkwell.
Cûdî's quatrain to the sura Tâhâ: a sura whose loftiness inspires wonder, the phrase "the greatest sign", and a soul that rises to the sky as the heavens seem to come down to earth.
Mihrî Hatun's short-lined ghazal in the hafif metre: the lover swears by the Sura al-Ikhlas for death, then the poet calls herself a pearl in the sea of poetry that no diver has seen.
Adlî's five-couplet ghazal on the refrain "mı diyelüm" lists his sorrows question by question, is wounded by the thorn before reaching the rose of union, and doubts his own patience.
Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "şod": a pun on gül-āb and gül āb, the rose melting with envy, the quick-answering eye and pupils ruined on grief's road.
A supplication within the mesnevî: a confession seeking pardon, a prayer that “this treatise be complete”, and prayer for İsmet and his son Bahâeddîn, dead at sixteen.
An opening couplet recorded without a source in Ali Emîrî's Cevâhirü'l-Mülûk: a lover who, since the pain of love is his companion, wants no other faithful beloved.
The enemy's fortune is black: while Mehmed Çelebi is in Rumelia, the lord of Karaman besieges Bursa for thirty-one days against Hacı İvaz Paşa and flees when Musa's body arrives.
A ghazal in which Nigârî explains his pen name, "I gave my soul to you": the full poem behind Hüsameddin's couplet "Dûzahu'l-‘uşşâk", the meeting of two seas and the word Çalab.
Sâhib's ghazal built on the language of food and taste: the sky as a sieve, a musket whose barrel cracks with the fire of envy, and a lip both sugar and salt.
Purified pages, the hands of envoy angels, a book touched only by the pure and written with light by noble scribes: an Arabic quatrain in praise of the Mushaf that echoes 'Abasa.
Mihrî Hatun's ghazal on the refrain "eyle arz": a lover in the dark like Khidr seeks the water of life, with down as infidel, cypress stature, chin apple and scattered tears.
Adlî's six-couplet ghazal turns the eye into a sea and a mine, tears into rain, the rose branch into an arrow, and the bloodied eyelash into coral in a sea of tears.
Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "pīçed": curling hair, the heart clutching a rope, the tongue-tied lover, the beloved turning away and the rival writhing like a snake.
A chronogram on the death of Şeyhzâde Abdullah Bahâeddîn in 1292: couplets in the dead youth's voice, İsmet's lodge and the question of the young man's identity.
A single line that Mehmed II spoke and left unfinished, which twenty poets of his age, and later eight more, completed into couplets with second lines of their own: a court game.
On fortune and opportunity: Emir Süleyman's son in Constantinople crosses to Yanbolu with his tutor, is captured, blinded and sent to Bursa. Three couplets.
The wine of love drunk without lips or cup: drunkenness in the limbs, a thousand doors opened by sincerity, rapture and trembling, and a lover kissing a friend of the beloved's dogs.
Sâhib's ghazal opening and closing in the language of shaving and barbers: a candle beheaded by the snuffers, the price of revealing love's secret, a barber.
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