Leylâ Khânim

Leyla Khanim is a woman poet represented in Gibb's anthology by a tarikh on the death of 'Andelib Khanim, the Sultan's adopted sister, and a tahmis on a gazel of Baqi.

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.