我奉献给你的工作，这是一个懦怯和提交的比例，以新颖的努力向公众犹豫它所代表。对于这首诗的诗我已经放弃了与我有我的思想最熟悉的形式，并努力遵循的道路上，我可以在我面前没有发现脚印，无论是指导或警告。
    有一种深刻的挫折而成功的时刻，以长时间的努力，当，这已成为一种习惯已停止劳动，我们错过了它的伴侣维持意识和立场，以一个陌生和尴尬的感觉，在突然和赤裸裸的结果。至于我自己在本案中，所有这些感觉力增加的情况下向我刚才提到。在这令人沮丧和怀疑的时刻，我的心本能地转向你，它已经从他经常要求，从它从来没有人得到的支持。
    我不给你这刻书，因为它包含的东西，他们的名字与心爱的和荣幸，我因此寻求联营它，也不但因为我会利用一个庸俗的借口，以显示自己在公众感情是最值得荣幸的沉默，它呈现神圣。
    如感情只与其中，以天当有评论家对我来说没有比你少温柔，我带给你我的幼稚手稿存在的，只有如那些有感情的，在以后的几年，你的心感动了所有相关的或占领我自己， - 使我再次要求对那些为迄今已通过我的生活指导和安慰我欠你的手抓住保证。
    并在童年时，存在没有辛劳超出了一天的简单的教训，没有超出夜间邻近批准的雄心，我为您带来的是晚上的制裁上午的任务，所以现在我给你们带来这个自封taskwork的成熟年;缺乏信心确实是你的批准，但不小于你的爱有信心，并渴望实现你的只有我自己和公众之间的存在，并与这些严厉的声音交织到其最后一句提交我的工作和亲切的心爱你自己的口音。
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    I dedicate to you a work, which is submitted to the public with a diffidence and hesitation proportioned to the novelty of the effort it represents. For in this poem I have abandoned those forms of verse with which I had most familiarized my thoughts, and have endeavored to follow a path on which I could discover no footprints before me, either to guide or to warn.
    There is a moment of profound discouragement which succeeds to prolonged effort; when, the labor which has become a habit having ceased, we miss the sustaining sense of its companionship, and stand, with a feeling of strangeness and embarrassment, before the abrupt and naked result. As regards myself, in the present instance, the force of all such sensations is increased by the circumstances to which I have referred. And in this moment of discouragement and doubt, my heart instinctively turns to you, from whom it has so often sought, from whom it has never failed to receive, support.
    I do not inscribe to you this book because it contains anything that is worthy of the beloved and honored name with which I thus seek to associate it; nor yet because I would avail myself of a vulgar pretext to display in public an affection that is best honored by the silence which it renders sacred.
    Feelings only such as those with which, in days when there existed for me no critic less gentle than yourself, I brought to you my childish manuscripts; feelings only such as those which have, in later years, associated with your heart all that has moved or occupied my own,--lead me once more to seek assurance from the grasp of that hand which has hitherto been my guide and comfort through the life I owe to you.
    And as in childhood, when existence had no toil beyond the day's simple lesson, no ambition beyond the neighboring approval of the night, I brought to you the morning's task for the evening's sanction, so now I bring to you this self-appointed taskwork of maturer years; less confident indeed of your approval, but not less confident of your love; and anxious only to realize your presence between myself and the public, and to mingle with those severer voices to whose final sentence I submit my work the beloved and gracious accents of your own.