
Ghazal 31 — Āşūb-ı cihānsın k’olur ol zülf-i ḫam ey dost
Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "ey dost": a beauty who upsets the world, a lock that steals hearts, tears shed to save a sword's temper, the moth, and the Sura of the Sun.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "ey dost": a beauty who upsets the world, a lock that steals hearts, tears shed to save a sword's temper, the moth, and the Sura of the Sun.

A ghazal with the refrain "dürüst", attributed to Münîrî only in anthologies: down like a decree, a judge's deed, a lock's secret faith, and teeth like the Pleiades.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "bahs", also copied into the Câmi‘u'n-nezâ'ir of 1512: a dispute over the lip, the knotty problems of a lock, and a heart that silences the lover.

Münîrî's ghazal rhyming in "-âc": moons bringing tribute to the crown of beauty, bloody tears stamped like coin on gold, the pulse of the flask, and death's poison as the only cure.

Münîrî's ghazal found only in the Vatican manuscript: a heart that runs like wind or is struck with palsy, the threshold's dust, a soul sold for a kiss, and the rival as Gog's guide.

Münîrî's libertine ghazal: a tavern boy for whom the lover's blood is lawful, a cup in the rose season, the daughter of the vine remarried, and a heart flying with the holy falcon.

The ghazal Ersoy cites for Münîrî's love poetry: a violet bruised from prostration, a litany rising from every hair, and the drunkenness of the feast of pre-eternity.

Münîrî's feast ghazal with the refrain "-ı ‘īd": a lover ready to be sacrificed, a feast fallen ill without union, a feast that bids repentance be broken, and henna of blood.

Münîrî's ghazal also copied into anthologies: stature and brow as the alif and madda of "âmennâ", a heart watching the sun from the chin's well, a dervish in felt, and rue seed.

The ghazal whose opening couplet Ersoy cites as a rhyme example: moles like rue seeds against the evil eye, a heart climbing the rope of a lock, a sealed mouth and poetry like sugar.

Münîrî's ghazal rhyming in "-ûd", recorded in an anthology under the heading "Münîrî-i Kâdî": the envious eye, the smoke of a sigh that harms a rose branch, and the mourning violet.

Münîrî's ghazal of letter play, preserved only in the Vienna copy: eye, stature and lock spelling "ṣād", a mole like black pepper, and a heart filled with alif, lām, mīm, ṣād.

Münîrî's ghazal that builds words from letters: "ṣad" (a hundred) written by eye and lock, "cesed" (body) joined from teeth and lock, and "Allāhü'ṣ-ṣamed" said with sincerity.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "-dan leziz": a lip sweeter than life, a heart that takes sorrow's poison for sherbet, an unripe promise no tears can ripen, and sighs.

Münîrî's short ghazal rhyming in plain Turkish: a lock that listens to moles, an ascetic who takes a hint, an ear ringing with the rival's death, and a proverb at the close.

Münîrî's ghazal: eyelash nails for the rider's horse, juicy fruits for the pupil, watchmen of tears, a mountain that could not endure the vision, and an arrow like a red candle.

Münîrî's ghazal in the "I said, he said" form: the wounding sick eye, a lip that may not exist, a love to be kept secret, and a beloved who finds the lover's life not worth a word.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "-ıdur": a cheek whose reflection is the sun, two doors into the heart, a body like a bubble on a sea of tears, and a poet who learns beauty by heart.

Münîrî's ghazal woven with proverbs: tears spent as white coin on the black lock, a heart told that he who gives the soul takes it back, and the comfort of a lasting good name.

Münîrî's ghazal: a liver turned into a beehive full of blood, eyelashes like coral, the saying "when fate comes, the eye goes blind", and a candle that shines once its head is cut.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "çeker": a heart reciting a litany on strands of hair, a drunken lock, a breeze bearing scents, the gallows, and a libertine who carries the jar.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "-sıdur": hair black as night like Leylâ and a Mecnun heart, a lip that eats the blood-money, a brow as compass, and the poet as the eyes' price.

Münîrî's ghazal rhyming in "-îde": a rosebud-lipped cypress, a beloved chosen among beauties, wine distilled from tears, a lover like ney and harp, and a body sodden with damp.

Münîrî's ghazal rhyming in "-îne": an arrowhead hung in the breast like a mirror, the heart as a treasure chest, a gathering that is no Friday mosque, and Canopus and carnelian.

Münîrî's ghazal with the refrain "ider": longing for the cypress and a flood of annihilation, a life made whole by the lip, dust above the houris' kohl, and the stranger's prayer.

Münîrî's ghazal that opens like a prayer and turns to the beloved: a gleam that fills eighteen thousand worlds, a breast that is a hut of sorrows, and a wide world that is a prison.

Münîrî's ghazal woven with proverbs: a prayer for death answered at the sight of a face, the path that water cuts, and tears that, drop by drop, become a lake to drown the lover.

Münîrî's ghazal: tears and blood veiling the eye at the moment of union, a rival who throws ashes in the eyes, withering cypresses, and a lover crawling to the door like the sun.

Münîrî's only ghazal with the refrain "virür": a sugar lip that feeds the parrot of the soul, a face that polishes the soul's eye, and a beauty that leaves no need for candle or lamp.

Münîrî's ghazal without refrain: a heart settled in a Kaaba-like quarter, tears that come as guests, grief's night raid, and the poet's heart as a glass whose shards become lancets.

Münîrî's ghazal: a lover sacrificed for union who becomes a martyr at the feast, a sword like sherbet, remembrance as the key to the heart's palace, and a mote lost at night.

Münîrî's ghazal opening with the pun "emsem" and "em sem": a crescent lesser than a brow, a pistachio silent beside a ruby lip, a tale-telling tear, and pride in poverty.

Münîrî's ghazal woven with proverbs: a heart hoping for a shirt from the dead, black news soon heard, the wet burning beside the dry, and the orphan who cuts his own navel cord.

Münîrî's ghazal: the beloved as a sovereign of Kashmir taking tribute from China and Cathay, the archer Turk, a burning breast beaten with stones, and a dream fulfilled in blood.

Münîrî's only ghazal with the refrain "depredür": a lock stirring like a peacock's wing, a heart trembling like a willow leaf in a gale, and a half-dead moth still fluttering.

Münîrî's ghazal with Turkish rhymes: a rosebud-lipped cypress that becomes a rose branch, the rival's ruin as a dog's bed, a Mecnun heart, and a corner of grief fated in eternity.
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