# Sándor Petőfi's most famous poems and lines

From the "National Song" to "At the End of September" and "Liberty, Love!": the lines by Sándor Petőfi every Hungarian knows by heart, each with the poem's title and year.

- 16 votes · 15 items
- Mar 26, 2023 · Takács Balázs
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## Top 15

1. **The flower falls, life rushes away…** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — "At the End of September" (1847).
2. **Rise up, Magyar, the country calls! / It is now or never!** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — "National Song" (1848. március 15.).
3. **Shall we be slaves or free men? / That is the question, choose!** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — "National Song" (1848).
4. **Liberty and love / these two I must have. / For my love I will sacrifice / my life, / for liberty I will sacrifice / my love.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — "Liberty, Love!" (1847).
5. **One thought torments me: / to die in bed, among pillows!** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — "One Thought Torments Me…" (1846).
6. **If you are a man, be a man: / strong, brave, steadfast.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — "If You Are a Man, Be a Man…" (1847).
7. **I am yours, yours, my homeland! / This heart, this soul.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — "Patriotic Song".
8. **What are you to me, wild romantic landscape / of the grim Carpathians with your pines!** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — "The Great Plain" (1844).
9. **All the way home / I kept wondering / how I would greet / my mother, unseen for so long.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — "A Plan Gone Up in Smoke" (1844).
10. **At the end of the village a little tavern / leans out over the Szamos.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — "At the End of the Village a Little Tavern…" (1847).
11. **The rays of the summer sun blaze down / from the top of the sky on the shepherd boy.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — "John the Valiant" (1844).
12. **Love makes up for everything, and nothing / makes up for love.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — "The Starry Sky".
13. **Memory! / You plank of our shipwrecked boat.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — "Memory" (1846).
14. **The garden flowers still bloom in the valley, / the poplar still stands green before the window.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — "At the End of September" (1847).
15. **What shall I call you, / when in the twilight of reverie / my eyes gaze / on the stars of your lovely eyes?** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — "What Shall I Call You?" (1848).

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.