Turkish & Ottoman

Bakhtî (Sultan Ahmed I)

d. 1617


Ahmed I wrote verse under the pen-name Bakhti.

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.

  1. O That a Fragrant Breath Might Reach

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