When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd Whitman's encounter with the lilacs in bloom in his mother's yard caused the flowers to become "viscerally bound to the memory of Lincoln's death". According to Gregory Eiselein: In the weeks before Lincoln's assassination, Whitman observed the planet Venus shining brightly in the evening sky. He later wrote of the observation, "Nor earth nor sky ever knew spectacles of superber beauty than some of the nights lately here. The western star, Venus, in the earlier hours of evening, has never been so large, so clear; it seems as if it told something, as if it held rapport indulgent with humanity,
Sky Is the Limit it rose in the first week til number No. 6 in the official album charts. In Austria, it jumped to number 2 and in Switzerland, the album reached number one on the album charts. Although the song "House Party", "Sky Is the Limit" and "Perfect Day" did not appear as a single, it reached due to strong downloads in several music portals the singles charts in many countries. "Bella Vita" peaked on number one only one week after the album was released. In Germany "Sky Is the Limit" was the most successful song of the album. Sky Is the Limit