'Izzet Molla

'Izzet Molla was one of Sultan Mahmud II's Vice-Chancellors and the author of the Mihnet-Keshan; Gibb places him among the highest poets of the nineteenth century.

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.