
Ghazal 92 — Maṭla‘-ı ḥüsnüñ gibi bir burc-ı a‘lâ görmedük
Mihrî Hatun's ghazal of praise with the refrain "görmedük": a face like sun and moon, a cypress stature, a beauty mark that astonishes the recording angels, a breath like the Messiah's.

Mihrî Hatun's ghazal of praise with the refrain "görmedük": a face like sun and moon, a cypress stature, a beauty mark that astonishes the recording angels, a breath like the Messiah's.

Mihrî Hatun's ghazal with the refrain "olsañ": a reproach to a beloved who broke her word, a heart called to be a nightingale in rose season, and a wish to become dust at her feet.

Mihrî Hatun's nazire to Necâtî with the refrain "zülfüñ": a trickster tress scattering the beauty mark as grain for the heart-bird, a bent branch, resurrection and the Antichrist.

Mihrî Hatun's ghazal declaring that true learning is reaching the beloved: a spring gathering, the compound pun belâ bil and belâbil, a lover begging a kiss, and the chain-like tress.

Mihrî Hatun's seven-couplet spring ghazal with the refrain "gül": a call to enjoy the brief season of the rose, with nightingale and cupbearer, and a warning of its passing.

Mihrî Hatun's ghazal of entreaty with the refrain "gitme gel", a nazire to Necâtî's ghazal with the same refrain, built on images of light and darkness in six couplets.

Mihrî Hatun's five-couplet ghazal of admiration with the refrain "ne güzel", listing the beloved's cypress stature, rosebud mouth and bow-like eyebrow; found only in manuscript Ü.

Mihrî Hatun's six-couplet ghazal of reproach to a faithless beloved, notable for its colloquial voice, its oaths and the address "efendüm", with a pun on falling from the eye.

Mihrî Hatun's seven-couplet ghazal with the refrain "-ümden benüm": a question-and-answer scene between lover and beloved, the lasso of the tress and the Mushaf of beauty.

Mihrî Hatun's five-couplet ghazal with the refrain "ben dönmezem", on constancy in love: an allusion to Hallâj-ı Mansûr and a challenge to the ascetic who fears hell.

Mihrî Hatun's five-couplet ghazal of complaint with the refrain "-umdan benüm": the hezâr double entendre, the rose, nightingale and thorn, and the candle and moth image.

Mihrî Hatun's ghazal of union with the refrain "buldum": the Jayhun and Nile hyperbole, a feast with daf, çeng and rebab, and a hüsn-i ta'lîl on the envious tulip.

Mihrî Hatun's five-couplet ghazal of devotion in a short hezec metre, moving from violet, spring and rose images to a prayer never to be parted from the beloved.

A Mihrî ghazal in which a single breath with the beloved erases the fear of death, the lover defies a preacher who threatens her with hell, and she begs not to be driven away.

In this ghazal every line is sealed with "lâ-cerem" (of course), treating the pain of separation, the beloved on the heart's throne, Ferhad and Şirin, and the rival as devil.

A Mihrî Hatun ghazal with the refrain "kerem" that asks a "mine of generosity" for help and justice and wishes Amasya to be made flourishing with light.

In this short ghazal with the refrain "a efendiciğim", puns on yak, yaka and Hakk'a, a lover's voice that ends in reproach, and the tone of a woman poet come to the fore.

A ghazal built on question and answer in which the lover meets each of the beloved's demands with "on my eyes", ending with a kiss requested and a life demanded in return.

A short Mihrî Hatun ghazal with the refrain "isterem" (I want), in which a lover fallen into the beloved's pain asks for a remedy, a rose-faced sultan and a night as a guest.

A Mihrî ghazal with the refrain "hoş görelüm" that urges taking the world, the beloved's cruelty and her turn toward the rival with tolerance in the face of fleeting life and seasons.

Opening with a spring wine gathering, this ghazal with the refrain "hoş görelüm" turns to the rose and thorn, the lover offering her soul, and the beloved calling Mihrî her dog.

A ghazal with the refrain "el yudum" in which the lover who has seen the beloved gives up the water of life, the cypress, the ocean, pearl and coral, and finally life itself.

Mihrî Hatun's ghazal with the refrain "iki gözüm" tells of a world darkened when the beloved's sun-like face is hidden, eyes turned fountains, and the transience of beauty.

Mihrî Hatun's ghazal with the refrain "başum", addressed to her own head, tells of a nature kneaded with tears, stones of reproach and an ending in which death is deliverance.

Mihrî Hatun's ghazal on the refrain "beñzetdüm", a response to Necâtî, moves from tulip, narcissus and spring images to a faithless beloved likened to the wind.

Mihrî Hatun's ghazal on the refrain "çoḳlar sevdügüm" tells of a sigh that burns the sun and moon and passes through iron, and of a rival like a demon beside an angel.

Mihrî Hatun's ghazal on the refrain "göstermesün", a response to Necâtî, is built on a prayer against separation, a jealous mirror, a hypocritical ascetic and a faithless beloved.

Mihrî Hatun's ghazal of a lover sold for nothing in the bazaar of love, with a message sent by the morning breeze and toil that goes to the wind, in everyday Turkish idiom.

One of Mihrî Hatun's best-known ghazals: a lover who hoped for faithfulness and found cruelty says "I do not curse" and then wishes her beloved the same fate.

Mihrî Hatun's ghazal on the refrain "bencileyin" tells of a starless fate, a ney with a broken heart and a beloved's name written on the walls of the heart with a sigh.

Mihrî Hatun's ghazal on the refrain "eyleyen" names the causes of her suffering: a separation that makes the breast bleed, a nightingale soul and the well of the chin.

Mihrî Hatun's ghazal about two silver-bodied riders seen on the Feast of Sacrifice, likened to Alexander and Haydar Shah; the poem closes by repeating its first line.

Mihrî Hatun's ghazal on the refrain "etegin", a response to Necâtî that later passed into Emrî's divan, with a debated reading of "Nâmi" in its last couplet.

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.

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.

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.
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