Fuzuli

Fuzuli (Mehmed bin Süleyman, c. 1483–1556) was one of the greatest poets of the sixteenth-century Turkish world. He wrote in Azerbaijani Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Persian and Arabic, and is remembered above all for his romance Leyla and Mejnun, the tale of the lover driven mad by his love for Leyla.

E. J. W. Gibb, whose Ottoman Poems (1882) gives the first English translations of his ghazels, noted that Fuzuli's Leyla and Mejnun contains many touching passages of great beauty. The poems below are from that volume.