'Atâ'î

'Ata'i Nev'i-Zade, the most distinguished man of letters of his time, studied first under his father Nev'i, tutor to Sultan Murad III, and entered the legal profession.

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.