Turkish & Ottoman

'Adlî (Sultan Mehmed III)

d. 1603


Mehmed III, son of Murad III, wrote verse under the pen-name 'Adli.

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. Cruel Tyranny We Love Not

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