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poem "Hermaphroditus", subscribed "Au Musée du Louvre, Mars 1863".
*The Isle of Wight, to the south of the British coast, was Swinburne's home throughout his childhood and later life; his love for the sea appears often in his poetry, where it is a metaphor for time, as in "Love at Sea", written in imitation of Théophile Gautier, and "The Triumph of Time".
*The first documented use of the word "lesbianism" to refer to female homosexuality

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