Here's the poem in a larger context, in Poems by Irwin Russell (New York: The Century Co., 1888), page 11, where it is printed without its own title, but as part of a longer poem "Christmas-night in the Quarters."

I have found other sources that call Russell "the first Southern writer to master Negro dialect in verse" who died in New Orleans in 1879 at age 26; and that refer to "Christmas-night in the Quarters" as an "1878 poem" and an "operetta in verse." (I doubt that "operetta" is meant to be taken literally.)