By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
‘Love Calls Us to the Things of This World’ is a poem by the American poet Richard Wilbur, included in his 1956 collection Things of This World. In the poem, a man wakes one morning and is fascinated by the laundry outside his window, viewing it as a group of angels come down to earth. The title of the poem is derived from a quotation from St. Augustine.