Turkish & Ottoman

Mihrî

d. c. 1514


Mihri is a poet of the early sixteenth century whom Gibb's anthology represents with two gazels; Gibb's heading dates the death to about 1514.

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. Once from Sleep I Oped My Eyes
  2. Faithful and Kind a Friend I Hoped

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