Muradî (Sultan Murad IV)

Murad IV ascended the throne at twelve years of age, at a time when the Empire was in a state of woeful disorder, and wrote verse under the pen-name Muradi.

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.