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Subject: PIZARRO, FRANCISCO (1475-1521)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CLOUDLAND, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A child, I wanted to explore
Last Line: Better hell than heaven's shadow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill
Subject(s): Children; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Conquistadors; Explorers; Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1521); Childhood; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


CONFIDENCE, by JUAN GONZALO ROSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Arnold, I must tell you
Last Line: Dips his dirty fingers in your wine
Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1521)


FRANCISCO PIZARRO, by ARTHUR CREW INMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Desperate, my men are our straits
Last Line: Before one who, with hand aloft, rendered judgment.
Subject(s): Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1521)


HUASCARAN, by PAUL C. METCALF    Poem Source                    
First Line: The incas are said to have encouraged pizzaro %to found lima as their revenge
Last Line: You must remember not to forget
Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Explorers; Incas; Peru; Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1521)


PERUVIAN TALES: TALE 2. ALZIRA, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flush'd with impatient hope, the martial band
Last Line: She falt'ring said -- then sunk on earth and died!
Subject(s): Peru; Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1521)


THE LAST INCA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In lone caxamalca pizarro awaits
Last Line: Went up to the lord when the carnage was done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Incas; Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1521); South America


WHO NEVER LOST, ARE UNPREPARED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: On this soldier's brow!
Subject(s): Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1521); Adventure & Adventurers