Belîg

Belig was the son of a certain Qara Bag 'Ali Efendi of Kayseri and came to Constantinople in 1703, where he lived in one of the medreses of the mosque of 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.