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Roses Are Red

William Wallace Denslow's illustrations for Roses are red, from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose

Roses are red can refer to a specific poem, or a class of doggerel poems inspired by that poem. The poem is:

Origin

Most believe that the original source of the poem were the following lines written in 1590 by Sir Edmund Spenser from his epic The Faerie Queene (Book Three, Canto 6, Stanza 6):

A nursery rhyme significantly closer to the modern cliche Valentine's Day poem can be found in Gammer Gurton's Garland, a collection of English nursery rhymes. (1783)

Victor Hugo was likely familiar with Spenser, but may not have known the English nursery rhyme when, in 1862, he published the novel, Les Miserables. Hugo was a poet as well as a novelist, and within the text of the novel are many songs. One sung by the character, Fantine contains this refrain, in the 1862 English translation:

The last two lines in the original French are:

(Les Miserables, Fantine, Book Seven, Chapter Six)


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