Recommending entire volumes of poetry seems to me daunting: poetry is so dense. Single poems, however, allow you to nibble on a new poet and see if you enjoy the flavor.
To start, let me recommend the astonishing Third Elegy from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies, a beautiful and terrifying description of the depths stirred in us when we love.
Here are two translations:
http://allspirit.co.uk/rilkethird.html
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German/Rilke.htm
Oh, that poem's beautiful.
A favorite of mine is Miniver Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson
http://www.poemtree.com/poems/MiniverCheevy.htm
I had forgotten that one. Funny, and with that wonderfully Dickensian name.
For some reason it brings to mind Louis MacNeice's Bagpipe Music.
http://www.artofeurope.com/macneice/mac6.htm
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