One thought alone my mind torments

a verse translation of a poem by Sándor Petőfi

Joe Váradi
Lit Up
Published in
2 min readJan 27

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Noémi Vészabó, with her painting of Petőfi

Continuing my tribute to Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849), in this bicentennial of his birth month, with one of his better-known revolutionary poems. Written in December of 1846, when he had already moved from his rural village to Pest, not yet married, not yet a leading figure in the revolution that would unfold in the spring of

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Joe Váradi
Lit Up

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