Sándor Petőfi's most famous poems and lines
The top 3 according to 16 votes from people: The flower falls, life rushes away… · Rise up, Magyar, the country calls! / It is now or never! · Shall we be slaves or free men? / That is the question, choose!. (Updated Mar 26, 2023.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in Magyar). See the original
Top 15
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The flower falls, life rushes away…
"At the End of September" (1847).
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Rise up, Magyar, the country calls! / It is now or never!
"National Song" (1848. március 15.).
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3
Shall we be slaves or free men? / That is the question, choose!
"National Song" (1848).
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Liberty and love / these two I must have. / For my love I will sacrifice / my life, / for liberty I will sacrifice / my love.
"Liberty, Love!" (1847).
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5
One thought torments me: / to die in bed, among pillows!
"One Thought Torments Me…" (1846).
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6
If you are a man, be a man: / strong, brave, steadfast.
"If You Are a Man, Be a Man…" (1847).
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I am yours, yours, my homeland! / This heart, this soul.
"Patriotic Song".
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8
What are you to me, wild romantic landscape / of the grim Carpathians with your pines!
"The Great Plain" (1844).
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9
All the way home / I kept wondering / how I would greet / my mother, unseen for so long.
"A Plan Gone Up in Smoke" (1844).
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10
At the end of the village a little tavern / leans out over the Szamos.
"At the End of the Village a Little Tavern…" (1847).
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11
The rays of the summer sun blaze down / from the top of the sky on the shepherd boy.
"John the Valiant" (1844).
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12
Love makes up for everything, and nothing / makes up for love.
"The Starry Sky".
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13
Memory! / You plank of our shipwrecked boat.
"Memory" (1846).
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14
The garden flowers still bloom in the valley, / the poplar still stands green before the window.
"At the End of September" (1847).
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15
What shall I call you, / when in the twilight of reverie / my eyes gaze / on the stars of your lovely eyes?
"What Shall I Call You?" (1848).
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