Shâhî (Prince Bayezid)

Prince Bayezid, a son of Sultan Suleyman I, led an unsuccessful revolt against his brother Selim, was defeated on the plain of Qonya and fled to Persia.

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.