Poetry Codex

Turkish & Ottoman

Selîmî (Sultan Selim II)

d. 1574

Selim II wrote verse under the pen-name Selimi, the same pen-name used by his grandfather Selim I.

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.

Poems (3)

  1. Hand in Hand Thy Mole Hath Plotted
  2. Taen My Sense and Soul Have Those
  3. Thy Veil Raise

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