I was planning, a few months ago, to write an article about the poems that I first remember getting me into the genre, though I have blown hot and (more often) cold as regards poetry over the years.

I can no longer find that draft, but recall that two of the works I was going to include were The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes - a standard anthology inclusion which I found thrilling as a kid:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43187/the-highwayman

And a couple of years later, Wilfred Owen's Anthem for Doomed Youth:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47393/anthem-for-doomed-youth

William Carlos Williams' The Dance was another one that opened my eyes to a different, more playful and unrestrained approach:

https://english.emory.edu/classes/paintings&poems/kermess.html