
Persian Ghazal 109 — Dīdem ān ebrū-yı nūn u ‘ayn-çeşm ü mīm-fem
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".

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".

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.

Münîrî's macaronic ghazal in Arabic, Persian and Turkish couplets: a morning wine gathering, the rose season against the ascetic, wine sealed with musk, and a closing "that is all".

Münîrî's trilingual macaronic ghazal: wine like the spring of Salsabil against the fire of separation, a sun rising from the cupbearer's hand, and pre-eternal shares of halva and wine.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal: a lover who boasts of dying with the beloved's lip in mind, a footprint dug with the eyelash, the fortune of grief, and an eye lit by the dust of the horse's road.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "āverem" (I bring): a lover moaning like the reed flute, blood carried to a pupil imprisoned in the well of the chin, and the heart as a child.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal: a heart lit by the sun of the cheek, a lover buying grief head in hand in love's market, a street preferred to Iram, and the favour of a sword on the neck.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "efkenem": a lover whose secret would turn the world into Majnun, Korah's treasures scattered in ruins, and tears that roar like the Nile and Oxus.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal: a lover now in the water of his eyes, now in the fire of his heart, a headstrong curl that pulls at his life-vein, the Magian elder's wine, and a moon-faced beloved.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal: a lover seeking the beloved who gives rest to the heart, thinking of the end at love's beginning, honour as a bad name among lovers, and restlessness like wine.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal spoken as "we": banners of the heart's smoke planted on the sky, the heart's due taken from the old hag of the world, and tears scattered for dust that is an elixir.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal: a spirit split in two by every word of a pistachio mouth, grief settled in the house of the heart, a golden face and silver tears, and a Hindu mole beside Moses.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal: a lover gilding with his face the stones his tears turned to ruby, bones given to the dog, a street circled like the Kaaba, and a cloak left in pledge.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal: a lover asking for a full cup with an Arabic maxim, a sword not drawn from its sheath in the rain, and a moth-soul made perfect by burning at the candle of the face.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal that opens with "the pen has dried" and closes with "Nun. By the pen": a lip so rare it seems not to exist, a stature grown by tears, and grief as companion.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "-i men": the rose of the face preferred to Iram, a knot of curls never untied, the trade of love, and fire, air, water and earth in one couplet.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "-i men": a soul made glad by sorrow, a cure from the honey of a sting, a lover drinking his liver's blood, and an autumn wind born of a cold sigh.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "-i men": wine turned bitter without the lip, judgement gone awry without the cypress stature, Ferhad and Khusrau, and the hoped-for shadow.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal: longing for a lip like love of homeland in exile, an almond eye and a silent pistachio mouth, and a nightingale and parrot talking of rose and sugar.

Münîrî's macaronic ghazal of Persian and Turkish couplets: the right of salt and bread with the dog, curls like mail, a sick Turk eye under a bow brow, and an earring pearl by the sun.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "-i men": the beloved named "yellow rose" through the letters kaf, lam, ze, re and dal, a book of deeds full of love, and the street dog.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "-ı men": a welcome to the light of the weeping eye, an image that is a guest till dawn, a sun face and shining moon, and a fiery sigh as love's proof.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "reften": a sword that enters the heart, a heart that leaves with the tears, madness in the curl of tresses, and grief that keeps growing.

Münîrî's ghazal that brings Persian, Turkish and Arabic couplets together: a lip like Solomon's seal, rubies of fire, and a hundred retreats in one tavern cup.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "ez-ū", a response to Hâfız: a sigh at parting, the sorcerer glance's apology, a soul at the lips, and a dizzy sun and moon.

Münîrî's seven-couplet Persian ghazal: a stream of tears seeking the sea of union, the sword's sherbet, an overflowing jug, and a lover who washes his hands of both worlds.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "-ı ū": the breeze lifting the veil from a rose face, sick lovers past the Yâsin, the ascetic's Paradise, and Me'vâ in a wall's shade.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal answering Hâfız: an oath by love's fire, a drinker unafraid of the inspector, tavern sweeping worth more than Cem's cup, and the faint star Sühâ.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "-yı ū": a soul given for a glance, death's poison as cure, the world-revealing cup, pure wine denied the Sufi, and dust as kohl.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "ḫāne": a breast turned guesthouse, the eyebrow's bow and the archers' ground, a house worth eight paradises, and a song's miyanhane.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal: a cypress waiting on one foot for the walking beloved, a necklace of tear pearls, a pun on the word "sāde", and beauty the ascetic belittles.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "ġonca": a rosebud that bears a trace of the beloved's lip, seals its mouth on a secret, scatters an offering, and opens in blood.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "müje": the lover's eyelashes become a fiery needle, the broom of Paradise, rose thorns and the wings of the eye, a bird in flight.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on "ez-müje", found only in the Vienna copy: tears that run like a waterwheel, rubies set in a yellow face, lashes as butcher's hooks, and sleeplessness.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "būse": a kiss that grants life yet stirs fear, blood money, a face kissed like the Qur'an, the sun kissing the ground, and tears on a footprint.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on short rhymes: a face yellowed like a quince or made fine, a brand set on the wound, the bowstring's "zih", and a love that knows neither great nor small.
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