Prince Bayezid's single-couplet müfred: a sigh that burns the body whenever it breaks from the heart; Persian "âteşîn" and Turkish "od" name one fire in two languages.
A single couplet by Prince Bayezid: why is the beloved's eye always languid? Because it has wine before it, like the lip. A müfred built on poetic aetiology.
Prince Bayezid's single couplet: the cypress that cannot walk and the rosebud that cannot speak fail to match the beloved. A couplet whose lines answer word for word.
Prince Bayezid's single couplet plays on the Turkish idiom of the sun rising on one's head: when the forelock is drawn from the cheek, the sun rises for the lover.
Prince Bayezid's single couplet brings together the Persian "mû" and the Turkish "kıl", both meaning hair: a hair-thin waist and a life not worth a hair. Two readings.
In Prince Bayezid's single couplet the lover's body is a banquet table: his breast an oven, his heart kebab, his two eyes two bottles of wine. Pain turned into a feast.
In Prince Bayezid's single couplet the beloved's drunken eye is a ruffian who draws a dagger on whoever he meets. The same image appears in the divan's eleventh ghazal.
Prince Bayezid's single couplet would liken the ruby to the beloved's lip on one condition: if the stone had a speck of life. The life-giving lip stands above the ruby.
Prince Bayezid's single couplet moves from the casket mouth and pearl teeth to the Turkish idiom of whetting one's teeth: is it fitting for such teeth to be sharpened?
Prince Bayezid's single couplet uses "gözlerüm" in two senses: eyes stained with blood from watching the road, and a lover who waits as long as his soul is in his body.
In Prince Bayezid's single couplet the preacher tells the people not to love the beautiful, then lays a snare for a beauty himself. A mocking couplet on a pun.
Prince Bayezid's single couplet uses its refrain "tolar" in two senses: the beloved winds his forelock round his finger and the horizons fill with musk.
In Prince Bayezid's single couplet the lover finds no cure in the world and learns by experience how hard it is to bear separation with patience.
In Prince Bayezid's single couplet a golden cup filled with red wine is likened to a golden ring set with a ruby. A banquet scene addressed to a shah.
Prince Bayezid's single couplet: a weeping eye, a roasted heart, a liver turned to blood and the plea "my state has changed". The same rhyme recurs in a tezkire couplet.
Prince Bayezid's single couplet of supplication: mountains of sin set against boundless seas of mercy. The "tutalum" of his letter of pardon here turns to God.
Prince Bayezid's last Turkish single couplet: the pleasure of the faithless, cruel world is not worth its torment and affliction. A brief summary of the divan's counsel.
Prince Bayezid's first Persian single couplet is a short supplication: O God, if you see fault and sin in us, forgive and hold us excused. It opens a series on pardon.
Prince Bayezid's Persian single couplet: the servant lays his face before God's court and says "from me repentance, from you pardon and grace". It shares a leaf with a mesnevi.
Prince Bayezid's Persian single couplet: mankind is never free of sin, and forgiveness befits God the sultan. A couplet joining human weakness to the generosity of pardon.
Prince Bayezid's only Persian single couplet on love: there is no need to aim the arrow of eyelashes at a lover already caught in the lasso. Recorded among Turkish couplets.
Prince Bayezid's Persian single couplet: I know no door other than your court; O Generous One, forgive and do not drive me away. A plea built on the image of the door.
Prince Bayezid's Persian single couplet: lamenting I have fallen at your court; God forbid that you turn me back and keep me deprived. A plea that makes rejection unthinkable.
The last couplet of Prince Bayezid's divan: Şâhî, if you wish for salvation, do no wrong and keep God in view. A Persian couplet of advice that admits two readings.
Prince Bayezid's first mesnevi opens as a letter to the beloved and turns into a eulogy of Süleyman the Magnificent, ending with "you are the Süleyman Khan of the age".
Prince Bayezid's longest mesnevi opens with a description of beauty, turns to the complaint of separation and ends with a prayer for the long life of the Shahanshah.
Prince Bayezid's last mesnevi is a supplication for pardon on the Day of Judgement: the scale, the Sırat bridge, a black face offered like a slave and quotations from the Qur'an.
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