Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens: Turkish Love PoemsTalat S. Halman, Jayne L. Warner The earliest turkish verses, dating from the sixth century A.D., were love lyrics. Since then, love has dominated the Turks’ poetic modes and moods—pre-Islamic, Ottoman, classical, folk, modern. This collection covers love lyrics from all periods of Turkish poetry. It is the first anthology of its kind in English. The translations, faithful to the originals, possess a special freshness in style and sensibility. Here are lyrics from pre-Islamic Central Asia, passages from epics, mystical ecstasies of such eminent thirteenth-century figures as Rumi and Yunus Emre, classical poems of the Ottoman Empire (including Süleyman the Magnificent and women court poets), lilting folk poems, and the work of the legendary communist Nazim Hikmet (who is arguably Turkey’s most famous poet internationally), and the greatest living Turkish poet, Fazil Hüsnü Daglarca. The verses in this collection are true to the Turkish spirit as well as universal in their appeal. They show how Turks praise and satirize love, how they see it as a poetic experience. Poetry was for many centuries the premier Turkish genre and love its predominant theme. Some of the best expressions produced by Turkish poets over a period of fifteen centuries can be found in this volume. |
Contents
IV | 5 |
V | 6 |
VI | 9 |
VIII | 13 |
IX | 14 |
X | 15 |
XI | 16 |
XII | 17 |
LXII | 85 |
LXIII | 88 |
LXIV | 89 |
LXVII | 90 |
LXVIII | 91 |
LXIX | 92 |
LXX | 93 |
LXXI | 94 |
XIII | 18 |
XIV | 19 |
XV | 21 |
XVI | 23 |
XVII | 24 |
XVIII | 25 |
XIX | 26 |
XX | 27 |
XXI | 28 |
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XXIII | 30 |
XXIV | 31 |
XXV | 33 |
XXVI | 35 |
XXVII | 36 |
XXVIII | 37 |
XXIX | 38 |
XXX | 39 |
XXXI | 40 |
XXXII | 41 |
XXXIII | 45 |
XXXIV | 46 |
XXXV | 48 |
XXXVI | 49 |
XXXVII | 53 |
XXXVIII | 54 |
XXXIX | 55 |
XL | 56 |
XLI | 59 |
XLII | 60 |
XLIII | 61 |
XLIV | 62 |
XLV | 63 |
XLVI | 64 |
XLVII | 65 |
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XLIX | 68 |
L | 69 |
LI | 70 |
LII | 71 |
LIII | 72 |
LIV | 75 |
LV | 77 |
LVI | 78 |
LVII | 79 |
LVIII | 80 |
LIX | 82 |
LX | 83 |
LXI | 84 |
LXXII | 95 |
LXXIII | 96 |
LXXIV | 97 |
LXXV | 98 |
LXXVI | 99 |
LXXVII | 100 |
LXXVIII | 101 |
LXXIX | 102 |
LXXX | 103 |
LXXXI | 104 |
LXXXII | 105 |
LXXXIII | 106 |
LXXXIV | 107 |
LXXXV | 108 |
LXXXVI | 109 |
LXXXVII | 110 |
LXXXVIII | 111 |
LXXXIX | 112 |
XC | 113 |
XCI | 114 |
XCII | 115 |
XCIII | 116 |
XCIV | 117 |
XCV | 118 |
XCVI | 119 |
XCVII | 120 |
XCVIII | 121 |
XCIX | 122 |
C | 123 |
CI | 124 |
CII | 125 |
CIII | 127 |
CIV | 128 |
CV | 129 |
CVI | 130 |
CVII | 131 |
CVIII | 132 |
CIX | 134 |
CX | 135 |
CXI | 136 |
CXII | 138 |
CXIII | 139 |
CXIV | 140 |
CXV | 141 |
CXVI | 142 |
CXVII | 147 |
CXVIII | 157 |
CXIX | 159 |
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Common terms and phrases
Ankara University Asaf Halet Çelebi awards beauty bird blue Cahit calling out Elif Cemal Süreya Cengiz Bektaş classical collections of essays crave dark darling death dream editor English essayist eternal eyes face Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca flower forest friends Fuzuli girl green hair Halman hand Hanım heart Hilmi Yavuz İlhan Berk Kanık Karacaoğlan kiss Leylâ literary live love poems love's lovely to remember lovers meant a love Mecnun Mediterranean Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi Mihri Hatun minstrel modern Turkish mystic Nazım Hikmet night Orhan Veli Ottoman Özdemir ÖZDEMİR ASAF Özer pleasure gardens published Restaurant in Prague rose Sait Faik sauntering cypress smell song soul Süleyman the Magnificent Sultan Talat Taranta Babu There's thing Three Storks Restaurant trans translator trees Turkey Turkish Language Turkish Literature Turkish love Turkish poet University of Istanbul verse voice walk windy windows Yunus Emre Ziya Osman Saba