嘉庆、道光、咸丰朝近五百名诗人题咏、数量超过七百首的诗集《断钗吟》，是清代嘉道时期，汤贻汾为称颂其母苦节教子之美德而手绘《吟钗图》卷，广泛征诗，汇刻的题画诗总集。它以歌颂母爱、彰扬母德为核心内容，在诗才与节德的对立及弥合、故物存在时间的有限与情思的无限、共同主题的男女异咏诸方面，汇集着对立而又相互联系的力量和意义，体现着巨大的诗歌张力，是多重张力构成的母爱合奏，净化了诗坛风气，丰富了诗歌主旨及表现力度。

Eulogies about a Broken Hairpin is a poetry anthology comprised of more than 700 poems written by nearly 500 poets during the period of Emperors Jiaqing, Daoguang and Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty. During the regimes of Jiaqing and Daoguang, TANG Yi-fen widely solicited poems for his painting "Eulogy about a Hairpin" in order to eulogize the virtue of his mother who struggled for chastity and educated him and his brother after the death of his father. Finally a painting poetry anthology came into being. The anthology, with the main purpose to extol maternal love and advocate maternal virtue, reveals the opposite and complementary relationship between poetic talent and virtue, and the contradiction between the finite existence of things and the infinite affection of human beings. The poems of the same topic written by female and male poets in the anthology also demonstrate opposite and related power and meanings. The anthology with magnificent poetry tension was an ensemble of maternal love, which purified the ethos of poetry circle, increased the variety of themes and strengthened the expression of the poetry.