Turkish & Ottoman

Yahyâ Beg

d. 1582


Yahya Beg was an Albanian janissary who devoted himself with success to literature and wrote an elegy on his friend Iskender Chelebi.

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. Parrot, Sweet of Voice

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