Muhibbî (Sultan Suleyman I)

Suleyman I, surnamed Qanuni, the Lawgiver, the most illustrious of the Ottoman monarchs, left a Divan of gazels under the pen-name Muhibbi.

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.