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Bri is a 55 year old woman from Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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The Irish Wolfhounds Bizarre Bazaar
Rated • 1 review • dogs, arts, gifts, irishwolfhounds, art • wolfhoundsbizarrebazzar.com
Irish wolfhound prints, cards, gifts. Julie has my favourite Dicksee print here. I have one like that hanging in my living room.
The Viking's Daughter
Warning: browser resizes. Since the "loot" on this site is so appealing to me, I'll forgive that :-)
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Online Reader - Project Gutenberg
Rated • 1 review • dogs, literature, ebooks, poetry, books • gutenberg.org
from The Dog's Book of Verse at the Gutenberg project
- BETH GELERT
The spearman heard the bugle sound,
And cheerily smiled the morn;
And many a brach, and many a hound,
Attend Llewellyn's horn:
And still he blew a louder blast,
And gave a louder cheer:
"Come, Gelert! Why art thou the last
Llewellyn's horn to hear?
"Oh, where does faithful Gelert roam?
The flower of all his race!
So true, so brave, a lamb at home,
A lion in the chase!"
In sooth, he was a peerless hound,
The gift of royal John,
But now no Gelert could be found,
And all the chase rode on.
And now, as over rocks and dells,
The gallant chidings rise,
All Snowdon's craggy chaos yells
With many mingled cries.
That day Llewellyn little loved
The chase of hart or hare,
And small and scant the booty proved,
For Gelert was not there.
Unpleased, Llewellyn homeward hied,
When near the portal-seat,
His truant Gelert he espied,
Bounding his lord to meet.
But when he gained the castle door,
Aghast the chieftain stood;
The hound was smeared with gouts of gore,
His lips and fangs ran blood.
Llewellyn gazed with wild surprise,
Unused such looks to meet;
His favorite checked his joyful guise,
And crouched and licked his feet.
Onward in haste Llewellyn passed,
And on went Gelert, too,
And still, where'er his eyes were cast,
Fresh blood-gouts shocked his view.
O'erturned his infant's bed he found,
The blood-stained covert rent;
And all around, the walls and ground,
With recent blood besprent.
He called the child--no voice replied;
He searched, with terror wild;
Blood! Blood! He found on every side,
But nowhere found the child!
"Hell-hound! By thee my child's devoured!"
The frantic father cried;
And to the hilt his vengeful sword
He plunged in Gelert's side.
His suppliant, as to earth he fell,
No pity could impart,
But still his Gelert's dying yell
Passed heavy o'er his heart.
Aroused by Gelert's dying yell,
Some slumberer wakened nigh;
What words the parent's joy can tell
To hear his infant cry!
Concealed beneath a mangled heap
His hurried search had missed,
All glowing from his rosy sleep,
His cherub-boy he kissed.
Nor scratch had he, nor harm, nor dread,
But, the same couch beneath,
Lay a great wolf, all torn and dead--
Tremendous still in death.
Ah! What was then Llewellyn's pain!
For now the truth was clear:
The gallant hound the wolf had slain
To save Llewellyn's heir.
Vain, vain was all Llewellyn's woe;
"Best of thy kind, adieu!
The frantic deed which laid thee low
This heart shall ever rue!"
And now a gallant tomb they raise,
With costly sculpture decked,
And marbles, storied with his praise,
Poor Gelert's bones protect.
Here never could the spearman pass,
Or forester, unmoved!
Here oft the tear-besprinkled grass
Llewellyn's sorrow proved.
And here he hung his horn and spear,
And oft, as evening fell,
In fancy's piercing sounds would hear
Poor Gelert's dying yell.
WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER.
- BETH GELERT
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The Painted Dog - Dog Paintings, Portraits and Limited...
Rated • 1 review • dogs, fine arts • thepainteddog.co.uk
From the page: "Original dog paintings, limited edition prints and commissioned dog portraits from London based artist Denise Laurent at The Painted Dog."
She manages to capture the spirit of these dogs, too, though I believe cats are her first love.
Oh, those eyes! It's always the eyes ...
Check out the "On the Easel" section ... nice of the artist to share this.
suggested by Pumpkin606; navigated to from The Painted Cat
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Wolfhouse ~ About Wolfhouse ~ Irish Wolfhounds
Rated • 1 review • dogs, irish wolfhounds • wolfhouse.dk
There is so much more to breeding than just putting two dogs together & profiting from the outcome. Check out the articles that you'll find here, on health and longevity, behaviour and temperament, for insight into the knowledge and research that a caring breeder puts into the effort and ask yourself if the place where you are buying your next dog, of any breed, has a similar attitude. Whose goals would you rather support?
Unless you're rescuing an animal or adopting from a shelter, isn't it worth waiting for a treasured family member to come from someone like this rather than to purchase one from a retailer or someone whose caring ends when they have your check in their pocket?
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Nick Mackman Ceramic Animal Sculpture
Rated • 3 reviews • animals, cats, dogs, sculpting, africa • nickmackman.com
Sculpture, bold and somewhat stylized, yet completely capturing the subject's character.
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Irish wolfhounds
Rated • 3 reviews • dogs, painting, pets, irish wolfhound, art • irishwolfhounds.org
This Dicksee print called "The Viking's Daughter" is one of my all-time favourite pieces of art featuring the Irish Wolfhound, and is only one of many pictured on Hilary Jupp's excellent Irish Wolfhound site which covers everything from breed history, health, rescue and many other topics
Yes, there's a copy hanging on my living-room wall :-)
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Irish Wolfhounds, Irish Wolfhound puppies, Cornovi
Rated • 1 review • dogs • cornovi-iw.co.uk
An example of a thoughtful, careful breeder of dogs 
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