Two couplets on the just khan's throne in both worlds, where a mystic is asked "Do sovereigns need a treasury?" and answers "The prayers of the subjects are the sovereigns' treasury."
A translation of a kıta ascribed to 'Alî and eleven quatrains on fortune: mountains begging mercy, a thousand drinks that are one wine, and a poet cross with destiny.
Peris were said to haunt desolate places, and the lover finds the belief true in his own heart. One line strings three proverbs: no treasure without a snake, no rose without a thorn.
The whole ghazal behind a couplet published alone on this site: the edition's "hergiz" turns the subject to the heart, Majnun finds his Leyla and blame becomes a wine.
In the closing couplet of this spring ghazal, Mihrî laments that her life has passed in Amasya and advises staying in Istanbul; the couplet can be read two ways.
Münîrî's ghazal of the sword's grain: the pattern on the steel as lovers' nail marks, a cypress beaten dry, a banished tear and a full moon lit by the pen name.
Four couplets on Mehmed II and Bayezid II, closing a list of Ottoman-era saints and scholars from Baba İlyas and Âşık Paşa to Hacı Bayram and Akşemseddin.
A silent nature like Joseph in the well, a glance descending like Gabriel, the refrain "what are you, Besîm", and an apology for late replies: a letter in verse.
The pen, bowed and weary from writing the lover's longing, has black water over its eyes. Câfer Çelebi restates the pen image of Ahmed Paşa and Necâtî through an everyday idiom.
A lover who leaves paradise to the preacher and keeps the tavern, a play between musk and the wretched, and a hard verdict that any lover who tells his secret is a Hallaj.
A nine-couplet ghazal woven from the words verse, khutba and treatise, in which the beloved's face is a Qur'an codex and the lover a student who reads and memorizes it.
Münîrî's ghazal rhyming on "Muṣṭafā": a face whose tresses the breeze has carried off, the fear of affliction, a stray arrow and the light of Muhammad in the last couplet.
Four couplets in the chapter answering "Why did you not mention Hacı Bektaş": he kept no company with the Ottomans and did not originate the janissary cap.
A world-conquering pen, lines like Leylâ's tresses, a thought that hooks the sun in the sea of unity, and the proverb of the Pleiades and the beggar: praise of a poet.
Lovers have rubbed their faces so often on the beloved's walls that their yellow cheeks gild the hall; in the pen-name couplet the poet's divan leaves the rose's notebook unfinished.
The cruel beloved's arrival at the gathering is likened to Hülagü entering Baghdad, yet musk, gâliye and jasmine foretell it, and at the end the one arriving is the poet.
A five-couplet ghazal that casts love as a bargain, the beloved as the rose, the lover as the nightingale and the rival as the thorn, ending in a plea to remember old faithfulness.
Münîrî's ghazal of counsel with the refrain "ola": a lover sacrificed at the feast of union, the burden of "ẓalūmen cehūlā", life as capital and advice for the soul's ear.
Three couplets in the appendix, where envoys between the Ottomans and Sultan Hoşkadem cease and Egypt declares over Dulkadır, "the sovereign of Rum is my enemy."
An angel-faced company that puts the rouge of joy on life, a rose scented with chastity, and a mother's breath that makes her child either light or Abû Lahab's flame.
An opening built on a complete pun on "revān": a walking cypress to whose feet souls flow like water, a bud full of blood, souls sacrificed to the brow's bow, and Şeyhî's ground.
The rhymes "bî-hâr", "bî-mâr" and "bî-nâr" are built like proverbs, no rose without thorns, no treasure without a serpent, while the heart turns Christian in the idol house.
A five-couplet ghazal of separation that begins with the beloved befriending rivals and leaving, and closes every couplet with the refrain "gitdi" (went), ending on labour lost to the wind.
Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "-dan yaña": heart and soul turning toward the beloved, the soul as a guest at the lips, news like Joseph's and eyes turned to a sultan.
Two couplets in the appendix: Kayıtbay becomes sultan, Şehsuvar is betrayed by his Turkmen lords and killed in Cairo, and the Ottomans ask, "Where is your pledge?"
The kaside "Tezyîf-i Züyûf" against Bektashism as a historical document: the baseless charges of late Ottoman Sunni polemic, the cap-and-dissimulation pun, and the debate on the orders.
In the market where Joseph found no buyer even for dinars, the lover bids for the beloved with his yellow face; on the refrain "yours", even the morning breeze turns lover.
The refrain "bilmezler" divides jurists and ascetics who do not know the hidden treasure from love's drunkards who know neither rite nor school, and the poet joins Majnun.
A five-couplet ghazal with the refrain "delüsi" (mad for her), in which everyone from the nightingale of the heart to the cypress and all the world is the beloved's madman.
A ghazal recorded under Münîrî's name only in Pervâne Bey's anthology: a robe jealous of a shirt, a moon exiled for telling the truth and a "bālā belā" pun.
Four couplets on friendship that ends in enmity, where Ottoman slaves sent to aid Alâeddevle are killed at Sis and their heads used for polo in Cairo.
Cûdî's two-couplet satire aimed at Bektashi dervishes: an attempt to set them apart from Hacı Bektaş Velî, and a prejudiced polemic that mocks the ban on hare's meat.
Each couplet pairs a Turkish line with an Arabic one built from everyday formulas of prayer; the ghazal closes on a prayer for the dead, "may your resting-place be pleasant".
The heart plays with the gurgle of the flask, the strand of the tress and the stages of the road, and in love's world Mahmud of Ghazna is a plaything before his slave Ayaz.
A plain six-couplet ghazal with Turkish verb rhymes that tells of a lover wounded by the eyebrow-bow and lash-arrows, and treats the beloved's cruelty as a mark of election.
Münîrî's macaronic Turkish-Persian ghazal: a banquet seized by the grape's blood, the beloved as a second Khiḍr, musk as a steppe Turk and union sealed by "men ṭaleb".
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