Turkish & Ottoman

Nev-res

d. c. 1761


Nev-res was a poet of the times of Mahmud I and Mustafa III, whose praises he sings; he was banished to Bursa in 1761 and died there shortly afterwards.

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. Near Thy Rubies

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