Talk:Roses Are Red

message: Any kind of source for this?  Who wrote the original?  --NormalAsylum (t) 14:54, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: The verse quoted from Opie & Opie 1997:446 should read "Thou art", not "Thou are".
I have just checked this against my copy of the book.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.209.132.179 (talk) 20:34, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor correction 

message: The "original" source, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, should read "Roses red and violets blue,/And all the sweetest flowers, that in the forest grew."
: Actually, Spenser's words were: "She bath'd with roses red, and violets blew,/And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew."  16th century spelling was different than Modern English.  Gavroche42 02:18, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original source correction 

message: Man, I am SO going to have to remember those variations. Wikipedia rules!!! -- 04:31, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legendary! 

message: Totally irrelevent but has anyone noticed violets are actually violet, not blue?
violet more like pilot
j.engelh says: What's odd with violet? Colors between #800080 and #8000E0 are violet for me. Also note that there is no such thing as "blue" (#0000C0 - #0000FF) in poetry - only azur/indigo, which on top is (#000000 - #000080). So violet is the only option IMO. -j.engelh 20:40, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Odd

message: With the possible exception of those that actually have a citation (Roger Miller and Aqua), are any of these variations truly notable?  Is there an objection to removing them?  Gavroche42 02:25, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable Variations?

message: Can anyone find a citation for 'Russian Reversal' instead of the 'Uncyclopedia' which mission is to be full of 'misinformation'?  Gavroche42 12:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Russian Reversal

message: Roses are red
Violets are blue
I am so kool
And your a fool
So go back to skool  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.242.49.83 (talk) 13:53, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Q.E.D.--85.180.6.214 (talk) 05:44, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Your a fool 

message: This has filtered through the net in varying forms, some more vulgar than others
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Friend requests are nice/great
But who the F***/Hell are you?  status quote  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spookywanluke (talk • contribs) 13:46, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Social media edition

message: The line les roses sont roses seems a little odd, because as an adjective, the word "rose" in modern French actually mainly means "pink"... AnonMoos (talk) 01:04, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Victor Hugo "Les Misérables" translation

message: Somehow 2 emperors meet in a visit to one to the other (Germany and Austria). In those countries this was never done since many years and it was big news. Johann Strauss junior made a song about this event, called Emperors walsz (Kaiserswalzer) and the lyrics are identical to this little children rime, only in the German language. "Rosen sind rot, Veilchen sind blau. Alles ist schön, wohin ich schau". Translated this means: "Roses are red, violets are blue. Everything is beautiful, where ever I look". This refers to Opus 437 and lyrics are not available on the internet.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bengud (talk • contribs) 09:45, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Emperors Walz