Fazlî

Fazli, nicknamed Qara Fazli, Black Fazli, was the son of a saddler of Constantinople, a dervish of the Khalveti order and a clerk by occupation, and a disciple of the poet-laureate Zati.

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.