Victoria Harbor In The Rain Poem by William He

'Victoria Harbor': A natural landform harbor in Hong Kong separating Hong Kong Island in the south from the Kowloon Peninsula to the north. The harbor's deep, sheltered waters and strategic location on South China Sea were instrumental in Hong Kong's establishment as a British colony in 1841 and its subsequent development as a trading centre. " Stonecutters" : Stonecutters Island or Ngong Shuen Chau, a former island in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. Following land reclamation, it is now attached to the Kowloon Peninsula. The island was ceded by the Qing dynasty to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland along with Kowloon in 1860 through the Convention of Peking. It was initially used for quarrying by the British, hence the English name for the island. " Tennyson" : Alfred Tennyson was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, 'Timbuktu'. He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, in 1830. 'Claribel' and 'Mariana', which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. " Thistles" : All thistles belong to the daisy family (asteraceae) , the largest family of flowering plants in the UK after grasses. The flower heads are made up of a number of individual flowers or florets giving rise to this family being called " composites" . " Night Leaves" ：An album by pianist Jaki Byard and cellist David Eyges. The AllMusic reviewer stated that 'There's a beautiful sense of harmonic understanding and freedom, a sense of timing beyond structured rhythms, and an empathy that these two retain simply by listening closely to one another.'