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Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
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Richard Wilbur
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Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Themes
Little Words, Big Ideas
Love
If the poem's called "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World," you can bet the bank on the fact that love's gonna show up somewhere. And indeed it does. This poem's all about the soul's acceptan...
Spirituality
While this poem calls us to celebrate the "things of this world," it also shows us the spiritual interconnectedness behind our human world. There is a whole network of angels greeting each morning;...
Life, Consciousness, and Existence
If "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World" doesn't make you think twice about the order of things, we don't know what will. It reminds us how there is more to existence beyond the lives we expe...
Awe and Amazement
At the beginning of "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World," the soul is in awe of the spirit world. Okay, nothing unusual at all about that; there are centuries of historical and religious art...