Poetry Codex

Turkish & Ottoman

Prince Jem

d. 1495

Prince Jem was the younger brother of Sultan Bayezid II, with whom he contested the throne, and after his defeat at Yeni-Shehr he fled abroad.

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 (2)

  1. Ah! Thine Eyes Lay Waste the Heart
  2. Lo! There the Torrent

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