Turkish & Ottoman

Fâzil Beg

d. 1810


Fazil Beg was the son of Tahir Pasha, the Sheykh Daher of Volney and Savary, the accomplice of 'Ali Beg of Egypt in his revolt against the Ottoman Porte.

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. The Trees and Flowers Their Turbans Roll
  2. Ah! Her Cheek Doth Rob the Fair Sun
  3. Oh! Thou the Bell upon the Church

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