Turkish & Ottoman

Sâmî

d. c. 1756


Sami is the annalist whose history forms one of the volumes of the Imperial Historiographers; Gibb calls him particularly strong in the mufred, the single couplet.

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. Surge in Waves My Streaming Tears
  2. Think Not That with Kevser's Praises Hearts Become

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