Ahmed Pasha

Ahmed Pasha, the son of Veliyyu-'d-Din, is called by Gibb the first really great lyric poet of the Ottomans; he was raised to the rank of vezir by Sultan Mehmed II.

The poems here are taken from E. J. W. Gibb's Ottoman Poems (1882), the first English verse translations of Ottoman poetry; dates and biographical details follow Gibb's Biographical Notices.