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There’s one poem that I highly recommend just for the :eek: 
factor. It’s in the Elizabethan section, but I can’t remember the author. I do know he was a notorious rake and the poem is him lamenting that his raking days are over due to, oh shall we say a “social disease.”
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John Wilmot, the Second Earl of Rochester. There’s a quite recent film with Johnny Depp as the infamous Earl.
Does this edition contain “The Dream of the Rood”. It’s an extraordinary poem in Anglo-Saxon. And “The Wander” if it’s still in there.
Other favourites of mine are Robert Henryson and John Skelton. Skelton’s “The Tunning of Eleanour Rumming” is a deliciously funny poem, a bloke’s disturbed and puzzled commentary on a girls night out.
Anything you pick my John Donne will be worth reading. Robert Herrick is a lovely poet and has the advantage of not being at all long-winded. Andrew Marvell is a delight.
John Milton just because. If you can catch the rhythm of his poetry he’ll have you, but it’s a different movement than you’ll likely be used to, but worth trying to get in time with him.