Münîrî's Persian ghazal spoken as "we": the wine of love drunk at the feast of pre-eternity, renouncing both worlds, an allusion to Joseph, and the lover running to the beloved's dog.
Three couplets signed Âşıkî on the taking of Enez: Has Yunus Beg sails into its harbour with ten galleys, the Conqueror comes by land to İpsala, and the tekfur surrenders.
The chastity of a world that grants union to no lover, the heedless who take her for a loose woman at the sight of her swaying walk, and a traditional image reversed.
A ghazal with the refrain "opening": the whole of the couplet "Ey gönül miftâh-ı mihr-ile" quoted by Hüsameddin, the veil of the face, the road Majnun opens and the verse of the face.
A get-well ghazal with the refrain "health becomes": a double meaning between health and correctness, infidel tresses likened to faith, and a couplet mistakenly assigned to Adlî.
The down is the writing on beauty's certificate, and the beloved who shaves it has scraped the document and made it void: a jest in the language of the judge's court.
Mihrî Hatun's ghazal on the refrain "etegin", a companion to the previous one, complains of faithless beauties who avow love and then deny it; its "Nâmi" is disputed.
Adlî's six-couplet ghazal with the refrain "oldı": tears turned to coral, a collar left untorn, a sword that cures pain, and a beggar made sultan by serving the beloved.
Münîrî's Persian ghazal: a lover jealous of the morning breeze who would turn to dust, the pun on "ger dem" and "gerdem", the many senses of "dem", and a fire lit by a cold sigh.
Five couplets saying that whoever will not pray for the dynasty wears a stone for a cap, after Novo Brdo falls and the Conqueror feasts at Kosovo where Murad I fell.
One with arrow and bowstring, light and fire, and a world that mirrors the mingling of opposites, good and evil, help and harm: the world likened to a sorceress.
A rubai whose every line ends "look, O cupbearer": a lover amazed by her drunken eye, a moth burning round the candle, a gazer who cannot look away and a heart thirsting for the cup.
A ghazal with the refrain "holds": teeth like pearls of Aden in a ruby casket, the sun holding the ewer and heaven the basin, carnelian within turquoise and tresses holding a rope.
Pilgrims of old brought back turban cloth, those of Sâhib's day give only aloeswood; and if ‘ûd is read as "return" the jest grows sharper still.
Mihrî Hatun's drinking-gathering ghazal calls the cupbearer, hunts gazelle-eyed beauties and ends by setting the lover's wish for the beloved against the ascetic's paradise.
Adlî's six-couplet ghazal: a cheek that gave Moses the white hand, a lip that taught the Messiah to raise the dead, seven seas poured from the eyes, and a shah's empty quarrel.
Münîrî's Persian ghazal: tulip-red tears on a yellowed face, a lover who answers the ascetic's reproach with his madness, and an inner voice speaking to the poet about his heart.
Three couplets on the Conqueror's siege of Belgrade in 861 (1456), where his uncle Karaca Beg is killed, the Rumelian lords hold back, and the sultan charges himself.
Men and women born of one joy who waylay one another, man as his own patient and physician, his poison and antidote within: humanity outside the rubai metre.
A cupbearer rubai rhymed on the Turkish words çok, yok and tok: a lover burning in separation, a plea not to say no, an eye quenched by a face and the sated eye that turns to faithfulness.
A ghazal that names the beloved "King Mehmed": life cut short in the moon's cycle, a moon rising from the heart of Scorpio, a body like straw on the water and a pavilion on the water.
The pen gives all it takes from the inkwell to the page and keeps only a dirty hand and a black face: a go-between who is generous but out of luck.
Mihrî Hatun's ghazal built entirely of questions to the beloved on the refrain "mı ne dirsin": drink, break the bottle of shame, dive, prostrate, or find another love.
Adlî's five-couplet ghazal: an eyebrow like fate's compass, the şemse of the face, a sword that drinks blood like water, a breeze lifting the lock, and libertines asked to remember him.
Münîrî's Persian-Arabic macaronic ghazal: a brow, eye and mouth like the letters nun, ayn and mim that spell "ne‘am" (yes) in the opening couplet, and the pun on "müdām".
Three playful couplets in which many a kadı turns "sugar porter", at the Edirne circumcision feast for which the Conqueror brought Prince Bayezid from Amasya.
The Qur'anic "very unjust and very ignorant": whether ignorance caused injustice or injustice ignorance, and man unchanged though busy with the sciences.
The ghazal with the refrain "coquette" that opens the hı section: a beloved who heals where she wounds, dagger and arrow turned to medicine, and a cupbearer in red on the feast day.
A ghazal that turns a house made a stokehole by love's fire into a rose garden like Abraham's fire: a breast that lights the world, a magnet for an iron heart and cups like tulips.
Grief enters the tree of existence with axe and saw, and time cuts it up like a carpenter; "keser" names both the tool and the work it does.
Mihrî Hatun's ghazal on the refrain "var iken": the lover sets a lasso of hair, the Sidra and Tuba trees and a ruler's rank against the beloved.
Adlî's only murabba: seven stanzas of reproach to the eye under the refrain "gözüm eyvây gözüm", with eyebrow-bow and glance-arrow images and a servant complaining of his shah.
Münîrî's Persian ghazal: a blue sky made from the smoke of the heart, a burning breast in place of a grave candle, a lover turned to dust for a kohl-lined eye, and a vine twig in the fire.
Four couplets signed Âşıkî on the second and third days of the circumcision feast of Prince Bayezid, brought from Amasya, when the poor and the lords were entertained and horse races held.
Passing beyond fear and hope, drinking death while alive, and the question of how unveiling and taste are to be told apart: a kalâm teacher's doubt about two Sufi claims.
Hey hey, vay vay, güm güm, kulkul and gulgul: a samâ‘ gathering heard in its sounds, lines split by inner rhyme, and a poet who ends by setting himself beside Hafez.
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