Râmiz Pasha

Ramiz Pasha was the Qapudan, or Lord High Admiral, and an intimate friend of Sultan Mustafa IV; after the revolution that dethroned that monarch he fled to Russia, where he wrote gazels showing how he yearned for his friend and his native land.

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.