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Mehmed Emîn Bey, born in Istanbul in 1862, worked as a civil servant in various levels of the state and did not fail to deal with literature and art during his service. His writings both in verse and prose indicate that the author, who died in 1884, was an individual who spent his short life of twenty two years in an efficient manner. The poet used the pseudonyms "Aşkî" and "Hümâyî" in his poems that constitute the source for this paper, yet could not bring these poems together in his lifetime. With the encouragement of Muallim Nâcî, the poems were compiled by the poet's brother, Mehmed Ali Bey, and published in Istanbul in 1884 under the name of Nevbahârım (My Spring). The majority of the poems in the work consist of ghazals. These ghazals were converted into the form of tahmis and published by Manastırlı Rızâ Nûrî in his work named Tahmîsât-ı Nevbahârım after the death of the poet. The demise of Emîn Bey at a young age was greeted with sorrow in the literary circles, and eulogistic texts written for and after his funeral ceremony were appended to the introduction of Nevbahârım. In this paper, Mehmed Emîn Bey's life and his literary personality will be evaluated through the content of Nevbahârım, and the transcriptions of the poems recorded in that work will be provided.