| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Hagar | | By Hartley Coleridge |
| | | LONE in the wilderness, her child and she, | |
| Sits the dark beauty, and her fierce-eyed boy. | |
| A heavy burden and no winsome toy | |
| To such as she, a hanging babe must be. | |
| A slave without a master—wild, nor free, | 5 |
| With anger in her heart! and in her face | |
| Shame for foul wrong and undeserved disgrace, | |
| Poor Hagar mourns her lost virginity! | |
| Poor woman fear not—God is everywhere; | |
| The silent tears, thy thirsty infant’s moan, | 10 |
| Are known to Him whose never-absent care | |
| Still wakes to make all hearts and souls his own; | |
| He sends an angel from beneath his throne | |
| To cheer the outcast in the desert bare. | | | | |
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