The opening couplet of Ârif's Güfte in the Merzifon Cönkü: a couplet of good wishes, possibly a feast-day greeting; original text, English prose and commentary.
The opening couplet of Yesârî's semai in the Merzifon Cönkü: a dialogue of lover and beloved in the I said, she said form; original text, English prose and commentary.
The first quatrain of a koşma by Dertli preserved in the Merzifon Cönkü: aşıks gathered in one place to contest, faithful hearts drunk since Elest, and love's hidden secret.
The first quatrain of a divan by Âşık Ömer in the Merzifon Cönkü: the face of the king of the fair is likened to the suras al-Qadr and al-Rahman, and the lover reads verses in it.
The opening couplet of Bâkî's ghazal preserved in the Merzifon Cönkü: the beloved's lip set above Jamshid's cup and her face above Alexander's mirror.
The first quatrain of the koşma printed under Bezmî's name in the Merzifon Cönkü: bow brows, gazelle eyes, a lover maddened like Mecnun, and a Cezbî problem.
Gedâyî's playful koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: pimples on the face of a beloved hailed as the rose of the world's garden, and tulips that weep blood.
The first quatrain of Fethî's koşma to Gülfadik, a beauty of Merzifon: a lament swelling like a nightingale's, the sea of love and a fire burning to Judgement Day.
A three-couplet ghazal fragment by Eşref, mufti of Merzifon: a pain the pen cannot write, a fever of grief treated with the pill of patience and eyebrows like a hidden verse.
Three couplets of reproach by Ümîdî of Merzifon: a sun that never visits its mote, a beloved who promised to stitch the wound but passes like an arrow, and a closed rosebud.
The opening couplet of Eyüb Sabrî's kalenderî in the Merzifon Cönkü: a lover asking the beloved to lessen her cruelty, sometimes to promise and sometimes to be coy.
The first quatrain of Erzurumlu Emrah's koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: the cruelty of the fair and a heart too timid to plead; original text, English prose and commentary.
The first quatrain of Tokatlı Nûrî's koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: fire left to the moth and a lover sated with the water of union; original text, English prose and commentary.
The opening couplet of Nazîf's ghazal in the Merzifon Cönkü: ease in the abode of affliction and paradise hoped for through sin; original text, English prose and commentary.
The first stanza of Himmetî's semai in the Merzifon Cönkü: beauty veiled by God and the plea of a wretched lover; original text, English prose and commentary.
The opening couplet of Ârif's divan in the Merzifon Cönkü: captivating tresses and sorcerous glances; original text, English prose and commentary.
The opening couplet of Yesârî's semai in the Merzifon Cönkü: a hand cut off from the beloved's skirt and a withering bud; original text, English prose and commentary.
The first quatrain of a koşma by Dertli preserved in the Merzifon Cönkü: the black-lashed, pen-browed beloved, a remembrance never off the tongue, and a forlorn head.
The first quatrain of a divan by Âşık Ömer in the Merzifon Cönkü: questions to a heart that will plunge into love's sea, be tossed by fate and fade in the wind of death.
Gevherî's chain quatrain preserved in the Merzifon Cönkü: the nightingale who knows the rose's worth, the heart that cannot know its own, and the lover who does.
The opening couplet of Bâkî's ghazal preserved in the Merzifon Cönkü: Venus lays down her instrument to hear the melody the lover's heart plays on the harp of grief.
The first quatrain of Fethî's koşma of counsel in the Merzifon Cönkü: the world as a faithless lover who deceives with her finery and keeps a secret paramour.
Cûdî's kaside on Merzifon and its continuation: the praying mountain, Tavşan Mountain as a kneeling camel, the lovesick clouds, Kara Mustafa Pasha's water and the mosque of his youth.
The opening couplet of Eyüb Sabrî's ghazal in the Merzifon Cönkü: the lover crowned with calamity the moment he loved the moon-faced beloved, and the crown-calamity contrast.
The opening couplet of Erzurumlu Emrah's divan in the Merzifon Cönkü: a longing not for wine but for the tavern and its gathering; original text, English prose and commentary.
The first quatrain of Tokatlı Nûrî's koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: the wine of parting, swallowing blood and a question put to fate; original text, English prose and commentary.
The opening couplet of Nazîf's ghazal in the Merzifon Cönkü: a confession of not knowing before the transient world; original text, English prose and commentary.
The opening couplet of Ârif's divan in the Merzifon Cönkü: a life never once freed from grief; original text, English prose and literary commentary.
The opening couplet of Yesârî's Kalenderî in the Merzifon Cönkü: the endurance of a fallen servant and the refrain efendim; original text, English prose and commentary.
The first quatrain of a koşma by Dertli preserved in the Merzifon Cönkü: an ill-starred servant whose road fell into darkness reproaches God for the world's hardship and cruelty.
The first quatrain of a divan by Âşık Ömer in the Merzifon Cönkü: a lover cries out to his friends that bloodthirsty robbers have taken his rose-faced, dagger-wearing beloved.
The first quatrain of a koşma by Gevherî preserved in the Merzifon Cönkü: a lover who tests himself, a heart weary of a fickle beloved, and an illusion seen too late.
The first quatrain of Fethî's koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: a heart riddled by the fire of love, tears flowing like the Ceyhun and an insistent call to the beloved.
The first couplet of Eyüb Sabrî's aruz semai in the Merzifon Cönkü: the poet advising his heart to love the pearl of the age, the laughing rose in the garden of beauty.
The opening couplet of Erzurumlu Emrah's semai in the Merzifon Cönkü: an inner self burning in love's fire and the soul caged like a bird; original text, English prose and commentary.
The first quatrain of Tokatlı Nûrî's koşma in the Merzifon Cönkü: love as misfortune and calamity, and an angel-natured youth; original text, English prose and commentary.
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