
Persian Ghazal 145 — Müjgān-ı men be-leşker-i eşkem koned nigāh
Münîrî's Persian ghazal that ends in praise of Bayezid II: an army of tears, down no land can hold, the witness of two lips, and two couplets of praise after the pen name.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal that ends in praise of Bayezid II: an army of tears, down no land can hold, the witness of two lips, and two couplets of praise after the pen name.

Münîrî's Persian wine ghazal on the refrain "-i mey": a cup turned to blood, an abashed Kevser, a secret on the cheek, a rose that pawns its garment, and the daughter of wine.

Münîrî's seven-couplet Persian ghazal: a call to the cupbearer, the seed of love sown in the breast, a sun that holds a mirror to the moon, and a martyr of love's funeral prayer.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal rhyming on "-evī": love told in the words of the Mesnevî, Moses' ember, the breath of Jesus, Khosrow's crown, and the worldly set against the hereafter.

Münîrî's Persian ghazal on the refrain "-ī": a yellow face reddened with blood, a lover rising dancing from his grave, knowledge over elixir, and a beloved who sees all.

Münîrî's last Persian ghazal in the divan: a travelling beloved who is never anyone's guest, a story that fills the world, and a candle that lights a hut of sorrows.

The first of Münîrî's Turkish ghazals: the manifestation of beauty, divine names seen in motes, counting oneself as nothing, and dying before death; Ersoy's example of Sufi symbols.

Münîrî's Turkish ghazal: Jesus rising to heaven to see a crescent eyebrow, a yellowed quince, a lofty stature that brings calamity, and the "lā" written by stature and tresses.

Münîrî's get-well ghazal for a ruler struck by fever: a sun that trembles, a morning breeze that flees in fear, and advance atonement for a sinless sovereign.

Münîrî's Turkish ghazal: a lover no one claims blood money for, death that comes in a breath, a fire-breathing dragon of tresses, and the star Sühâ that vanishes at dawn.

Münîrî's Turkish ghazal: a breeze driven mad by touching the tresses, the wind of longing, a lover trampled by twofold tresses, a barking dog and a beggar, and the wind of extinction.

Münîrî's ghazal of surrender: a lover who holds faithfulness and cruelty alike, a dog-like rival, a cypress-tall beloved and a closing line that says what is past is past.

Münîrî's ghazal of the lips with the breath of Jesus: lips that revive yet kill, a glance like death's courier, sick eye and sick heart, and a curse called a prayer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

Münîrî's ghazal of the stranger lover: drawn by his own earth to a quarter, a five-day nightingale, a preacher who would strike with a sword and an eyebrow like an Indian doctor.

Münîrî's ghazal rhyming on the suffix "-üp": a lover seeking the beloved even at the Gathering, a tear kissing a dog's track, a falcon-like heart and a mended glass.

Münîrî's ghazal of the sun-like face: light that burns the veil, manifestation in the dust, a sun climbing the hills to see an eyebrow's crescent and a sleepy glance.

Münîrî's ghazal of the hyacinth veil: a sun-face behind a cloud, cheek-down that is no verse of mercy, "death" as the answer to "em" and Ersoy's example of zihaf.

Münîrî's ghazal of the chin's apple: apples on a grave's willow, an eye that is a sick physician, a sword-bearing preacher in the mosque of the face and the "sehm" pun.

Münîrî's banquet ghazal: tears turned to wine and a breast turned to kebab, rosewater for a dog, a sun that drops in through the chimney and a closing "God knows best".

Münîrî's ghazal of the forsaken lover: only the sword turns its face to him, a cup lip to lip, a Sufi's turban pawned for wine, gold on the touchstone and a fevered grave.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "-üp": a pupil at the window, a pun on dragging one's face and following a track, an arrow of fate and lips that need not take a life.

Münîrî's chess ghazal: lips served by sugar and candy, the alms of beauty, a beloved who checkmates kings with "ruḫ" as cheek and rook, and freedom in captivity to tresses.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "ey dost": a servant begging a glance from the king of beauty, pearls poured from the eyes, rose-sugar lips and a body wasted to a straw.

Münîrî's plain ghazal in a short metre: union hanging on fortune, a lover bent double for a cypress-tall youth, a lost arrow, the well of the chin and sinking into fortune.

Münîrî's Sufi ghazal: the mirror of attributes reflecting the light of the Essence, passing away from self, a prostration older than Kaaba and Somnath, a mustard-seed universe.

Münîrî's ghazal of the bewitching eye: an eye that plunders the heart, lips that give signs, a ruined realm restored by a sultan, ablution in blood and a kiss worth more than Samarkand.

Münîrî's ghazal of the image as guest: an image never to be let go, a pun on sick-visit and custom, a crescent raising its finger in assent and birth whose root is death.

Münîrî's ghazal to a beauty named "‘İṣmet", or to chastity itself: a fate from pre-eternity, retreat in the heart, dust as collyrium, seventy-two nations and a prayer of mercy.

Münîrî's mixed Turkish-Persian ghazal: a drunkard of the banquet of Alast, a line cast into the sea of the heart, Solomon and the ant, arrows sunk to the nock and a fly in honey.

Münîrî's ghazal on the proverb "the answer to a fool is silence": the Ever-Living, ruby lips, tresses that swallow the heart as the fish swallowed Jonah, and a grassless grave.
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