<P> The origins of the poem may be traced at least as far back as to the following lines written in 1590 by Sir Edmund Spenser from his epic The Faerie Queene ( Book Three , Canto 6 , Stanza 6 ) : </P>
<P> The origins of the poem may be traced at least as far back as to the following lines written in 1590 by Sir Edmund Spenser from his epic The Faerie Queene ( Book Three , Canto 6 , Stanza 6 ) : </P>
who started roses are red violets are blue
who started roses are red violets are blue
Sir Edmund Spenser
Sir Edmund Spenser