Nâbî

Nabi, born at Urfa, came to Constantinople in the reign of Muhammed IV and attached himself to that monarch's favourite Mustafa Pasha, whom he accompanied on his Morean campaign.

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.