A ghazal opening with the repeated "Benem" (I am): moth and thirsting lover, Leylâ's camel and caravan bell, the veil of selfhood, a gathering made ready, and engraving on the breast.
Beauty above the nisâb owes alms; Nigârî counts himself poverty upon poverty and the beloved nisâb upon nisâb, so that she is the debtor and he the creditor.
A ghazal telling the physician "do not trouble yourself": death as the cure of passion, calamities that ask after the lover while the beloved does not, a love-curse on the rival.
Lightning from the lover's sighs is hurled at the strangers driven from the door, the liver becomes kebab for the wine, and the poet asks a reward as if for a Shahname.
A ghazal with the refrain "O physician": the pain of love told to a doctor, souls and blood found in a split breast, a sickness even Luqman could not cure, and the ruby lip as sole remedy.
Youth is over, yet the horse of aspiration still runs in the arena of passion; the ghazal of a drunkenness without wine calls the Sufi drunk with sleep and itself awake.
A ghazal that turns to prayer with "O you nearer to me than myself": nearer than the jugular vein, wine that comes on its own feet, Azerbaijani forms, nightingale and moth.
The rhymes meet in "-ağlar" and most carry two meanings: brand and mountain, weeping and nets, blade and crow; the refrain "çekilüp" plays on the idioms of Turkish.
A ghazal seeking the daring lover who would declare the beloved peerless: a nightingale whose delight is its cry, a share from the sea of the soul, and a veil to be lifted soon.
The cup goes round for the thirsty of Karbala: wine upon wine and kebab upon kebab, a heart not cleansed without the cup, the rind's ill name, and an answer to love's martyr.
A ghazal of seeking with the refrain "itdim taleb": a burning soul, a house given to the wind, renunciation, cave and desert, and a quest ending in "I woke" or "I wept".
The preacher called "bookless": the lovers' Quran, the garden of vision, the Messiah's detachment, a rind refusing the cup of attachment, Mount Elburz and delight without the rebab.
A ghazal in which Nigârî explains his pen name, "I gave my soul to you": the full poem behind Hüsameddin's couplet "Dûzahu'l-‘uşşâk", the meeting of two seas and the word Çalab.
The wine of love drunk without lips or cup: drunkenness in the limbs, a thousand doors opened by sincerity, rapture and trembling, and a lover kissing a friend of the beloved's dogs.
An eleven-couplet ghazal saying "I am an Ahrârî": a chain that may point to Ubeydullah Ahrâr and Muhammad Ma‘sûm, "lebbeyk" in answer to "yâ Rab", a fatherless child and the repeated "men".
A poet who turns the Quran of a face into a book through the mirror of his nature: lips as the sherbet of speech, a glance that could ruin the world, and a lover silent to spare the beloved.
The daughter of the grape walks unveiled: no torment for those who burn with love, the dry-mouthed zealot's writing on water, and circling the cupbearer's head and cup.
A ghazal inviting the beloved to a hut of sorrows: Jacob's house of sorrows, a pain that would burn the physician's hand, the idiom "kanına girmek", a drunken nightingale and nearness soon.
Raised on gazelle's milk, breath scattering musk: the scent of a burning liver in the gathering, wine smelling of rose-water, poetry that opens veils, and the tavern of reason laid waste.
A ghazal naming Attâr's hoopoe: the Conference of the Birds and the road to the Simurgh, a speaking parrot and an uncomprehending crow, and a difference between two editions.
An eleven-couplet münacat with the refrain "yâ Rab": beloved or death, a slave asking for his freedom, a soul sent to the Kaaba, a prayer for the divan, and bread without obligation.
The cupbearer rubai closing the letter be: a rhyme announcing the "-ât" of the letter te, a lover checkmated by wonder, the water of life and the useless water of the Euphrates.
A rubai asking the cupbearer for "the wine of the Essence": life from the shade of the lips' water, salvation from a glance, and the second of the pair closing the letter be.
The naat opening the te ghazals: the Prophet described by Quran, Gospel, Psalms and Torah, the Quran as miracle, a sun lighting the motes, the jewel of the verse and words that are a decree.
Praise of a heart that serves the tavern elder: servanthood above kingship, leaving tomorrow to God, advice to make a name good or bad, the passing cup and a sweet moment.
A ghazal inviting the zealot to the tavern: a call sounded from the tavern, the turning circle, a paradise without vision as prison, the astronomer's lecture room and the word "illet".
Four couplets, opening missing in the edition: the beloved's place of ascension unreachable without a guide, a veiled bud, wine in the eye's cup and a kiss worth a thousand souls.
Deed, salvation and merit carried into the tavern: the rind's deed, Lât and Menât in the breast, the tavern of steadfastness, the wine of constancy and a soul given to the cup.
A ghazal saying "do not linger in Rûm, set out for Baghdad": the city of Hâlid-i Bağdâdî and of Fuzûlî, guidance in the tavern, making a name, and a pun on wakefulness and cruelty.
A ghazal of hope with the refrain "elbet": a rose-red rider who will come, the crowned hoopoe bringing news, the patience taught by the sura of Joseph, the breeze and the hunter of fortune.
A ghazal telling the poet's nature "take the pen, make the secrets known in poems": eş‘âr and iş‘âr, a pacing partridge, a parrot silenced by sugar, tears as pearls and a prayer.
A plea with the refrain "O Friend": desert vagabondage in place of reason's torment, "take our souls but do not hide your face", a wish for half a glance, and the address Dost.
A ghazal wishing its poetry to be admired by the people of Shiraz: the city of Hafez and Saadi, the bargain "be at least a little coy", distinction among the mad, and a gathering.
A ghazal with the refrain "O Friend" built on thirst and water: honey-water, a spring-head and a life-giving drop, the unveiled face as the greatest blessing, and a poet scattering pearls.
A supplication built on "have mercy on my ...": a mad, lonely, placeless and disgraced lover, an aged lala, a moth, and the first line returning at the end.
A ghazal likening a night with the curl to the Night of Power: a fresh decree, a dawn breeze taking musk from the forelock, the alms of beauty, manifestation, and a mirror unveiled.
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