| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | V. Second Nuptials | | By Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) |
| | | THERE is no jealousy in realms above: | |
| The spirit, purified from earthly stain, | |
| And knowing that its earthly loss was gain, | |
| Transfers its property in earthly love | |
| (Though love it was she does not yet reprove) | 5 |
| To her by Heaven appointed to sustain | |
| The honored matron’s part; to bear the pain, | |
| The joy, the duty, all things that behoove | |
| A Christian wedded. She that dwells on high | |
| May be a guardian angel to the wife | 10 |
| That her good husband chooses to supply | |
| Her place, vacated in the noon of life; | |
| With holy gladness may support the bride | |
| Through happy cares, to her by death denied. | | | | |
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