Careful Words

nameless (adj.)

Tully was not so eloquent as thou,

Thou nameless column with the buried base.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 110.

Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns,

And as the portal opens to receive me,

A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts

Tells of a nameless deed.

Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823):

That best portion of a good man's life,—

His little, nameless, unremembered acts

Of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.