Sándor Petőfi

Sándor Petőfi

Hungarian poet, revolutionist
1 January 1823 — 31 July 1849

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What shall I call you,
when my lips receive
the flaming ruby of yours,
and our souls fuse in the fire of the kiss
like night and day in dawn,
and I can no longer see the world,
no longer see time,
and I drown in mysterious
transports of eternity -
what shall I call you?

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Freedom and love
Are dear to me;
My life I give,
Sweet love, for thee,
Yet love I give
For liberty.

My little girl, if you are the heaven
I shall be a star above on high;
My little girl, if you are hell-fire,
To unite us, damned I shall die.

Joy?
A little pearl of the ocean.
Perhaps
By the time I fish it up
I may break it.

If you can sing of nothing better
than your own joy or broken heart,
the world can do without your singing:
keep out, where you can have no part!

While homeward bound I thought about
The way, through every mile,
In which to greet my mother, whom
I missed for quite a while.

What pleasing words to say to her?
Dear words they need to be,
When she, who rocked my cradle, will
Be reaching out to me.

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Though ships bob on the surface
And oceans run beneath us
It is the water rules.

One thought keeps going round my head:
The thought of dying in my bed!
Slowly withering like some overblown
Flower the greenfly gnaws and makes his own;
Wasting away like an old candlestick
In a deserted room, grown pale and sick.

My heart is still bathed in the fierce sun of passion,
All spring is in bloom there, by spring breezes tossed,
But look how my hair turns hoary and ashen,
Its raven black touched by the premature frost.

When all men lift the horn of plenty
in one happy equality,
when all men have an equal station
at the table of justice, and, see
the spiritual light break shining
through the windows of every house
then we can say, no more wandering,
Canaan is here, let us rejoice!

My love varies, but doth never cease;
It still remains imperishable and sure;
Its strength abides, but with a greater peace;
Oft calm, and yet with depths that will endure.

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