Shemsî Pasha

Shemsi Pasha, confidant and governor of the palace of Selim II and Murad III, was born in Hungary and was the last scion of the House of Qizil-Ahmedli.

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.