Excerpt from the book Ottoman Lyric Poetry AN ANTHOLOGY by Walter G. Andrews * Najaat Black * Mehmet Kalpakli University of Washington Press, 2006. TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Poet's Preface	xi
A Note on the Pronunciation and Transcription of Turkish	xiii
OTTOMAN LYRICS: INTRODUCTORY ESSAY	3
THE GATHERING OF DESIRE	25
Nesîmî
1. Oh my idol	27
Ahmed-i Dâ'î
2. The torture of the beloved	28
Sheyhî
3. Your sun-face	29
4. It's the season of spring	31
Ahmet Pasha
5. Ask about my wailing	32
The Mejlis: Gathering of Desire	33
6. Is there any heart	35
Nejâtî
7. Those glances rain down arrows	36
8. The heart is pleased	39
9. Those tulip-cheeked ones	41
10. Spiraling, the sparks	43
Iskender/Alexander, Hizir, and the Fountain of Eternal Life	45
Mihrî Hatun
11. I opened my eyes	49
12. At times, my longing	50
13. My heart burns	51
Zeynep Hatun
14. Remove your veil	53
Revânî
15. What do you say	54
Lâmi'î
16. Yesterday I saw	55
Zâtî
17. Oh heavens, why do you cry	56
The Pleasantries of Zâtî	57
Hayretî
18. We are not slaves of Suleyman	59
Figânî
19. My sad heart is burnt black	60
The Cosmos and the Earth	61
20. Your kiss does not satisfy	63
Fevrî
21. The arrow of your glance	64
Hayâlî
22. They do not know how much I search	66
23. We are among those	68
24. When dawn hennas her hands	69
The Story of Leylâ and Mejnûn	70
Fuzûli
25. Oh God, don't let anyone	74
26. If my heart were a wild bird	75
27. For long years	76
28. The pointed reproach of the enemy	77
Hüsrew, Shirîn, and Ferhâd	78
Nisâyî
29. We are the Mejnûn	82
Fabulous Birds	84
Nev'î
30. We don't need the cup of pleasure	87
31. Help me, oh sapling	88
Bâkî
32. That tyrant	90
33. Oh, beloved, since the origin	93
34. The fountain of my spirit	95
35. If only the bud would open	96
36. Sparks from my heart	97
37. Your rebellious glance	98
Yahyâ Bey
38. Come wander through the city	100
39. Poetry holds the written veil	101
Rûhî
40. Curse the thorns of fate	103
Sheyhülislâm Yahyâ
41. Saki, offer the cup	104
42. Let the hypocrites	105
43. Is there no heart	106
The Down on Your Cheek	107
Nef'i
44. That black drunken eye	109
45. Those who painted my portrait	111
46. The heart is both the cup and the wine	112
Sheyhülislâm Bahâyî
47. Oh cry, what are you doing?	113
Nâbî
48. When we watch the spinning of the sky	114
49. In the garden of time and destiny	115
50. At the gathering of joy	116
R!umî's Mirror	118
Nâilî
51. We are the snake	122
52. My tears become desire	124
53. Since the thunderbolts of disaster	126
54. What witch are you	128
Poetic Parallels	129
Neshâtî
55. We are desire	131
56. You're gone - I'm alone	132
57. The sky's face has turned dark	133
Nedîm
58. At the gathering of desire	134
59. When the east wind	135
60. As the morning wind blows	136
61. Take yourself to the rose-garden	137
62. Delicacy was drawn out	140
Koja Râgib Pasha
63. Dark thought is revealed	142
Râsih Bey
64. Don't lover your languid eyes	143
Fitnat Hanim
65. In a heart	144
Esrâr Dede
66. In the ruins	145
67. You left, but don't forget	146
The Indian Style	147
Sheyh Gâlib
68. You are my effendi	149
69. I won't abandon you	151
70. To me, love is the flame	153
Sünbülzâde Vehb&icrc;
71. Oh east wind, come	155
Enderunlu Vâsif
72. The gazelles have bound their hearts	156
Izzet Mollâ
73. Everyone knows	157
74. I am a nightingale	158
Yenishehirli `Avnî
75. Don't think we came to ask	159
NOTES	161
THE POETS	209
OTTOMAN TURKISH TEXTS	269
Bibligraphy	307