Dec 27, 2021
3 min read
The Four-Oxen Wagon
a verse translation
I mention for context, this poem was written in 1845 by Sándor Petőfi, then twenty-two years of age. He was already on path to becoming Hungary’s greatest poet, a revolutionary who spoke the people’s language, and who also had a gift for romantic pastorals. He married in 1847, died in battle in 1849.
