Turkish & Ottoman

Harîmî (Prince Qorqud)

d. 1512


Prince Qorqud, who wrote under the pen-name Harimi, was a son of Sultan Bayezid II and a brother of Selim I.

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. Both Crown and Robe Forsake Shall

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