Poetry Codex

Turkish & Ottoman

Nejâtî

d. 1508

Nejati, whose real name was 'Isa (Jesus), was born, according to Qinali-Zada, at Adrianople but brought up at Kastamonu, and won his first laurels at Bursa.

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.

Poems (5)

  1. Locust-Like Down from the Sky the Snowflakes Wing
  2. The Early Springtide Now Hath Made Earth Smiling
  3. One Eve, When Had the Sun Before Her
  4. Truth This: a Lasting Home Hath Yielded Ne'er
  5. O Handkerchief! I Send Thee Off

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