||$ *& brief notice of the Persian poets. (Jan. 



was noted for the elegance of his language and beauty of his 

 poetry. He is also known under the appellation of Mahomed 



Said. 



Adhum Mirza Ibrahim. n 



A short Diwan and Nameh are from the pen of this 

 poet ; the style of the latter is much admired by Oriental lite- 

 rati for its elegance and spirit. He originally came from 

 Hamadan in the reign of Shah Jehan. 



Amaidi Tehrani, ( of Tehran J . 



Tehrani was accounted as the first poet of Iran in the time 

 of Shah Ismail, who flourished in the 10th century of the 

 Hejira. In early life he repaired to Shiraz and was taken 

 into the service of Moulana Jelal, where he made rapid pro- 

 gress in the sciences. The surname Amaidi (hopeful) was 

 given him by his master. 



He finally settled at Tehran where he made a garden and 

 called it the Bagh-i-Amaid, the garden of hope, in allusion 

 to his surname : but alas ! (to use his biographer's words) 

 " the young plant of expectation had not yet produced the 

 fruit of his wishes, when the rose-garden of life became wi- 

 thered and blighted by the chilly blast of death." 



The following verses of Akhsangi, (mentioned in our last) 

 have been preserved as a specimen of the style of that poet by 

 the author of the Tazkirat-us-Shora : — 



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