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'''"Roses Are Red"''' is the name of a love poem and children's rhyme with [[Roud Folk Song Index]] number 19798.<ref>{{cite web|title=Roud Folksong Index S299266 Roses are red, violets are blue |url=http://www.vwml.org/record/RoudFS/S299266|access-date=May 20, 2016|work=[[Vaughan Williams Memorial Library]]|publisher=[[English Folk Dance and Song Society]]|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 11, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611032614/http://www.vwml.org/record/RoudFS/S299266 }}</ref>
A modern standard version is:<ref>{{Cite book|last=Roud|first=Stephen|author-link=Steve Roud| url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/610824586|title=The Lore of the Playground : One hundred years of children's games, rhymes and traditions|date=2010|publisher=Random House Books|isbn=978-1-905211-51-7|location=London|page=420|oclc=610824586}}</ref>
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{{blockquote|<poem>It was upon a Sommers shynie day,
When [[Helios|Titan]] faire his beames did display,
In a fresh fountaine, farre from all
She bath'd her brest, the boyling heat t'allay;
She bath'd with roses red, and violets
And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew.<ref>Spenser, ''The Faery Queene'' iii, Canto 6, Stanza 6: [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/fq/fq32.htm on-line text] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061514/http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/fq/fq32.htm |date=March 4, 2016 }}</ref></poem>}}
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Violets are blue.
Onions stink.
And so do you.<ref name=Hopscotch>{{cite web|url=http://hopscotch.com.au/hopscotch-articles/2005/5/18/jill-still-playing-jacks-and-hopscotch-endures/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140127055258/http://hopscotch.com.au/hopscotch-articles/2005/5/18/jill-still-playing-jacks-and-hopscotch-endures/ |archive-date=2014-01-27 |title=Jill Still Playing Jacks And Hopscotch Endures|access-date=17 September 2009|date=18 May 2005|author=Liz Gooch}}</ref></poem>}}
Country music singer [[Roger Miller]] parodied the poem in a verse of his 1964 hit "[[Dang Me]]":
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The [[Benny Hill]] version:
{{blockquote|<poem>Roses are
Violets are bluish
If it weren't for Christmas
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