Ta'en my sense and soul have those thy Leyli locks, thy glance's spell, Me, their Mejnun, 'midst of love's wild dreary desert they impel, Since mine eyes have seen the beauty of the Joseph of thy grace, Sense and heart have fall'n and lingered in thy chin's sweet dimple-well. Heart and soul of mine are broken through my passion for thy lips; From the hand of patience struck they honor's glass, to earth it fen. The mirage, thy lips, O sweetheart, that doth like to water show; For, through longing, making thirsty, vainly they my life dispel. Since Selimi hath the pearls, thy teeth, been praising, sense and heart Have his head and soul abandoned, plunging 'neath love's ocean-swell. —_Sultan Selim II._ (1566-1574). GAZEL Thy veil raise, shake from cheeks those locks of thine then; Unclouded beauty's sun and moon bid shine then. But one glance from those soft and drooping eyes throw, The heart through joy to drunkenness consign then. Were I thy lip to suck, 'twould heal the sick heart; Be kind, an answer give, Physician mine, then. Beware lest evil glance thy beauty's rose smite, From ill-eyed rival careful it confine then. O heart, this is Life's Water 'midst of darkness, In night's gloom hidden, drink the ruby wine then. My love's down grows upon her rosy-hued cheek, A book write on the woes it does enshrine then. Thy wine-hued lip, O love, grant to Selimi— And by thy parting's shaft my tears make wine then. —_Sultan Selim II._ GAZEL Soon as I beheld thee, mazed and wildered grew my sad heart; How shall I my love disclose to thee who tyrant dread art? How shall I hold straight upon my road, when yonder Torment Smitten hath my breast with deadly wounds by her eyelash dart? Face, a rose; and mouth, a rosebud; form, a slender sapling— How shall I not be the slave of Princess such as thou art? Ne'er hath heart a beauty seen like her of graceful figure; Joyous would I for yon charmer's eyebrow with my life part. Farisi, what can I do but love that peerless beauty? Ah! this aged Sphere hath made me lover of yon sweetheart. —_Sultan Osman II._ (1617-1623). TO SULTAN MURAD IV.