An old English Assignment

As I was going through some of my old collection of items I ran across and old English assignment. It was a poem that I had written about the Greek mythology story of Pygmalion and Galatea. The story in short is about how Pygmalion falls in love with a statue named Galatea. So here is my poem:

O, cold and lifeless ivory,

But beauty prevails in so,

Is it the hell to pay?

For my unloving soul?

I'll love you in this form

Until I die alone.

Unless, Venus God of Love

Bless my creation whole.

Holding you're cold hand I feel,

A warm and soothing flow,

Of what every man must have to live,

The dark, the warm red blood; a Soul.

So, long I kissed your ivory lips, hoping,

for them to kiss me back, dress you in fine clothes as a child does a doll.

But forgive me now my love

For now I know what true love is and means,

It is you that gives me purpose to live.

Galatea I shall name you,

My most beloved, my truest being.