Roses Are Red

"Roses Are Red" is a love poem and children's rhyme with Roud [Folk Song Index] number 19798. It has spawned multiple humorous and parodic variants.
A modern standard version is:

Origins

The rhyme builds on poetic conventions that are traceable as far back as Edmund Spenser's epic The [Faerie Queene] of 1590:
A rhyme similar to the modern standard version can be found in Gammer Gurton's Garland, a 1784 collection of English nursery rhymes published in London by Joseph [Johnson |Joseph Johnson]: