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,
The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise shot at dawn. The song is also referenced in Tennessee Williams's play "The Glass Menagerie" as the music heard emanating from the Paradise Dance Hall across the alley from the Wingfields' tenement building. The dance hall represents the outside world that Tom hopes in some ways to join. The Les Paul and Mary Ford version of the song appears in a teaser video released by American band The Voidz to promote their album "Virtue". The video was directed by Warren Fu. The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" is a popular ballad with