Turkish & Ottoman

Ishâq Chelebi

d. 1537


Ishaq Chelebi, the son of a sword-cutler of Skopje, was noted for his drunken and abandoned life.

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. Dead Am I of Grief

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