Original Ottoman Turkish Text
Metre: Mefʿūlü mefāʿīlü mefāʿīlü feʿūlün
Farḳ-ı ser-i şūḫundaki iklīl-i żiyā-pūş
Bir ṭurre-i zerrīn olur menbaʿ-i reviş
Her tār-ı dil avizine göñlüm gibi ḳonmuş
Elmās degil, nūr-ı naẓar ṭıs ile ṭonmuş
Rūḥumda meger ḥūr ile ülfet var ezelden
Vaḥşī daḫı olsa baña ḳız çehresi meʾnūs
In English
1. The tiara clad in light on the coquette's head becomes a golden lock, the source of her swaying.
2. Perched on every string of the heart, on her pendants, like my heart; it is not diamond but the light of the glance, frozen there (the line is not entirely clear).
3. It seems there has been a familiarity in my spirit with the houris since eternity; even if she be wild, a girl's face seems familiar to me.
Literary and Historical Commentary
A young girl's ornaments become, in this three-couplet kıta, the material of a short picture of beauty. In the first couplet the glittering tiara on her head turns into a golden lock; in the second the gleam in her pendants is said to be not diamond but the light of the glance, frozen there. Beside the adorned crowd of the preceding "Çarşı" müstezat, this kıta focuses on a single face.
The last couplet ties the whole picture to a confession: in the poet's spirit there has been an acquaintance with the houris since eternity, and so even the shyest, most "wild" girl's face seems familiar to him. In divan poetry the beloved's being "wild", shy like a gazelle that flees from people, is a known comparison; Cûdî turns it round: even the beauty who flees is no stranger in the poet's eyes. The meaning of the word "Ta'ândan" in the title is not explained in the thesis and could not be resolved here either.
Bibliography
- Zeynep Adıyahşi, Merzifonlu İbrâhîm Cûdî Dîvânı (İnceleme-Metin-Sözlük) [43b-87b], Master's thesis, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun 2017, p. 61 (poem no. 214; manuscript fol. 60a). http://libra.omu.edu.tr/tezler/116831.pdf
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