Poetry Codex

Turkish & Ottoman

'Azîzî

d. c. 1641

'Azizi was the pen-name of a certain Mustafa of Constantinople, who held the appointment of provost of the Seven Towers and is known mainly from his Shehr-engiz.

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.

Poems (4)

  1. Zemân the Long-Haired
  2. She Whom They Call Jihân's a Damsel Moon-Faced
  3. La'l-Pâra as Her Name Doth One of These
  4. And Aq-'Alem They One of Yonder Maids Call

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