'Avnî (Sultan Mehmed II)

'Avni was the pen-name of Sultan Mehmed II, who was girt with the scimitar of 'Osman at twenty-one and two years later took Constantinople, ending the Roman Empire.

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.