Who originally wrote or told this famous poem?

Question

"The roses are red, violets are blue..." one.

Answer 1

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)[1]:

It was upon a Sommers shynie day,
When Titan faire his beames did display,
In a fresh fountaine, farre from all mens vew,
She bath'd her brest, the boyling heat t'allay;
She bath'd with roses red, and violets blew,
And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew.

Answer 2

Robert Burns said my love is like a red, red rose. I guess that doesn't count. I'm guessing it came along early in the last century here in America. Say between 1900 and 1935.

Answer 3

Probably someone who thought they were a poet but were not and did not know it , or someone who wrote a lover a poem and later said why did i blow it?!!

Answer 4

I don;t know who wrote it; but they were really on to something 'as many ys ago that;s how a many poems' started....