| "Roses Are Red" | |
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 William Wallace Denslow's illustrations for "The rose is red", from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose | |
| Nursery rhyme |
"Roses Are Red" is the name of a love poem and children's rhyme with Roud Folk Song Index number 19798.[1] It has become a cliché for Valentine's Day, and has spawned multiple humorous and parodic variants.
A modern standard version is:[2]
Roses are red
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet
And so are you.
- ^ "Roud Folksong Index S299266 Roses are red, violets are blue". Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. English Folk Dance and Song Society. Archived from the original on 11 June 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
- ^ Roud, Stephen (2010). The Lore of the Playground : One hundred years of children's games, rhymes and traditions. London: Random House Books. p. 420. ISBN 978-1-905211-51-7. OCLC 610824586.