Roses Popular Poem
Did you hear this lines? Sounds familiar with it right? In movies you can hear that lines and in music. But where this lines come from, what poem it is from and who writes these lines?
The origins of the poem may be traced to the following lines written in 1590 by Sir Edmund Spenser from his epic The Faerie Queene (Book Three, Canto 6, Stanza 6):
In common English this reads:
A nursery rhyme significantly closer to the modern cliché Valentine’s Day poem can be found in Gammer Gurton’s Garland, a 1783 collection of English nursery rhymes. It is a lyrical adaptation of the traditional English folk song "Lavender Blue".
Victor Hugo was likely familiar with Spenser, but may not have known the English nursery rhyme when, in 1862, he published the novel, Les Miserables. Hugo was a poet as well as a novelist, and within the text of the novel are many songs. One sung by the character, Fantine contains this refrain, in the 1862 English translation:
The last two lines in the original French are:
(Les Misérables, Fantine, Book Seven, Chapter Six)
