Zâtî

Zati was born in the province of Qarasi, where his father was a shoemaker, made his fortune in Constantinople, and was one of the poetic lights of the reigns of Bayezid II and 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.