Lâmi'î

Gibb ranks Lami'i, born in Bursa, among the very best and most fruitful writers of the Ottomans, a man of quiet and uneventful life given wholly to study.

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.