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Philip Joseph Holdsworth

I lived from 1849-1902. I was from Australia, and am in the Oceania category.

Philip Jospeh Holdsworth was born in Balmain, near Sydney,on the 12th January, 1849; his father was English, his mother Irish.
He was the Editor of the Sydney `Athenaeum', he also worked with the `Illustrated Sydney News'.
For many years he was Cashier in the Treasury, Sydney; afterwards Secretary, Forest Department, untill 1892. He died 19th January, 1902.

`Station Hunting on the Warrego, and other Poems' (Sydney, 1885).

My poetry

  • HAST thou forgotten me? the days are dark—
    Light ebbs from heaven, and songless soars the lark—
    29 lines
  • In the warm flushed heart of the rose-red west,
    When the great sun quivered and died to-day,
    20 lines
  • All my life's short years had been stern and sterile --
    I stood like one whom the blasts blow back --
    32 lines

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